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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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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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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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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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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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