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

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Jean Iris Murdoch
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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