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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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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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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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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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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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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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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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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