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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
Iris Murdoch
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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