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Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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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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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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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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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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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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... 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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