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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Biographer
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Complete
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Another
Power
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Victimization

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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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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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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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