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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Iris Murdoch

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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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