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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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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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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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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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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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