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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.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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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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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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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 death is the most terrible of facts.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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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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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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