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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

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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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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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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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Real worship involves waiting.
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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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... 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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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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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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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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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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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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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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