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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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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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