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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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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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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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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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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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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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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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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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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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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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