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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

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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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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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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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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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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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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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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 sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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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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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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