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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

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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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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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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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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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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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