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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
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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 bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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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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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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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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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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