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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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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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youth is a marvelous garment
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
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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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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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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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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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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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