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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Clear
Hate
Love
Cloudy
Hatred

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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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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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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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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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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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