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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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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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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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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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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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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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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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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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