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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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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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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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