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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
Iris Murdoch
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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
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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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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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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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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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