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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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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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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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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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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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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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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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