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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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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 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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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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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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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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