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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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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 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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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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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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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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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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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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