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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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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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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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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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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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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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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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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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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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