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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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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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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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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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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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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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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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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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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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