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The very madness of the scheme protects it.

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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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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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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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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