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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
Everyone
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Equality
Cry

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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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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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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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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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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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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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