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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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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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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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