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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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Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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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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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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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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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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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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