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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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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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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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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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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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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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Real worship involves waiting.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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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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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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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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