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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

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

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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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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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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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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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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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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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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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