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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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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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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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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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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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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 nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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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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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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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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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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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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