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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE war eine anglo-irische Schriftstellerin und Philosophin. Sie ist bekannt für ihre Sachbücher und Romane, die ethische oder erotisch-sexuelle Themen behandeln. Murdoch gehörte zu den Vordenkern der Gender-Diskussion und bezeichnete sich selbst als Person „in der Haut eines homosexuellen Manns, der seiner Frau fremd geht“.

Murdoch ist außerdem die Titelperson in Richard Eyres preisgekrönter, aber inhaltlich umstrittener Filmbiographie Iris von 2001. Darin wird die Geschichte ihres Verfalls durch die Alzheimer-Krankheit aus der Sicht ihres Mannes John Bayley beschrieben, zu der Zeit, als das Paar in North Oxford lebte. Murdoch wurde in dem Film von Kate Winslet und Judi Dench dargestellt.

✵ 15. Juli 1919 – 8. Februar 1999   •   Andere Namen آیریس مرداک
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“I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.”

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Iris Murdoch buch A Severed Head

Quelle: A Severed Head

“As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.”

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Iris Murdoch buch Nuns and Soldiers

Quelle: Nuns and Soldiers

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Sea, the Sea

Quelle: The Sea, the Sea

“What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Sea, the Sea

Quelle: The Sea, the Sea

“How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Sea, the Sea

Quelle: The Sea, the Sea

“youth is a marvelous garment”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Bell

Quelle: The Bell

“The chief requirement of the good life… is to live without any image of oneself.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Bell

The Bell (1958), ch. 9; 2001, p. 119.

“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Message to the Planet

The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 43.

“Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Good Apprentice

The Good Apprentice (1985), p. 247.

“Whit Meynell was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Philosopher's Pupil

The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) p. 165.

“All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Black Prince

The Black Prince (1973); 2003, p. 181.

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

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Iris Murdoch buch The Nice and the Good

The Nice and the Good (1968), ch. 14, p. 127.
Murdoch attributed this opinion to her character Kate Gray. It was not her own.

“The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.”

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Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Quelle: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 10, p. 138

“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”

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Iris Murdoch buch A Severed Head

A Severed Head (1961); 1976, p. 181.

“We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction.”

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Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Quelle: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 10, p. 148 (the concluding sentence of the book)

“Only lies and evil come from letting people off.”

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Iris Murdoch buch A Severed Head

A Severed Head (1961); 1976, p. 61.

“The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Message to the Planet

The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 532.

“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”

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Iris Murdoch

"Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art", Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986).

“He felt neither guilt nor distress at the pleasure with which he was now filled by the proximity of this young creature, and when he discovered in himself even physical symptoms of his inclination he did not take fright, but continued cheerfully and serenely to see Nick whenever the ordinary run of his duties suggested it, congratulating himself upon the newly achieved solidity and rational calm of his spiritual life.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Bell

The Bell (1958) p. 91

“I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.”

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Iris Murdoch

Not Iris Murdoch, but the actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. See George Mair Rosie O'Donnell: Her True Story (1997) p. 81.
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“I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Message to the Planet

The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 322.

“The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.”

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Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Quelle: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 9, p. 137

“All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.”

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Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Quelle: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 9, p. 127

“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Book and the Brotherhood

The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.

“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”

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Iris Murdoch

Quoted in The Times (6 July 1989).

“The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.”

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Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Quelle: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 7, p. 113

“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”

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Iris Murdoch

Quoted in The Observer September 13, 1987.

“Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)”

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Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Quelle: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 8, p. 119

“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974) p. 37.

“To eat, teeth must meet.”

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Iris Murdoch buch The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974), p. 66.

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