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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

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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
Hate
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Evil

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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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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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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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