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Author: Iris Murdoch
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  1. Iris Murdoch _ The Black Prince

    Εκείνη την εποχή συζητούσε να γίνει "μοντέλο", αλλά απ' όσο ξέρω εγώ τουλάχιστον, δεν έκανε καμία σοβαρή απόπειρα προς αυτή την κατεύθυνση. Εκείνο το οποίο έγινε στο τέλος, και χωρίς καμία ιδιαίτερη λεπτότητα, ήταν κοκότα."
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  2. Iris Murdoch _ The Message to the Planet

    You talk of freedom - I've never had it! I've been lonely and miserable and in despair, and you want me to consent to all that all over again!"
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  3. Iris Murdoch _ The Sea, The Sea

    If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite."
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  4. Iris Murdoch _ The Sea, The Sea

    Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's.
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  5. Iris Murdoch _ A Fairly Honourable Defeat

    -La gente no suele saber aplicar la filosofía. Dudo de que ni siquiera los filósofos sepan hacerlo. -La gente puede usar conceptos morales lo mismo que tú has usado ahora el concepto de la verdad para convencerme. Cualquiera puede hacerlo. -Quizá. Pero creo que la filosofía moral es algo que resulta desesperanzadamente personal. No puede ser comunicado. «Si un león hablase, no podríamos comprenderlo», ha dicho Wittgenstein."
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  6. Iris Murdoch _ The Time of the Angels

    God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.
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  7. Iris Murdoch _ The Green Knight

    Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows."
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  8. Iris Murdoch _ The Sea, The Sea

    ... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around.
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  9. Iris Murdoch _ The Black Prince

    I have nobody in the world. I'll kill myself. That's best. Everyone will say, It's for the best that she killed herself, she's better off dead . . . I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it . . ."
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  10. Iris Murdoch _ The Bell

    Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed."
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  11. Iris Murdoch _ The Sea, The Sea

    Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.
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  12. Iris Murdoch _ Henry and Cato

    One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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