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Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 February 8, 1999) was an Anglo-Irish writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art."

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"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."

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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self."

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"Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously."

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"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

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"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fa?ade of his appearance."

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"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."

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"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."

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"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

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"Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

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