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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

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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
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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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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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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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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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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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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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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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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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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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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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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