Murdoch

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“They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

“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 agonising preoccupation with self.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

“You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)