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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.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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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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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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