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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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Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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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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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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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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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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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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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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