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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

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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 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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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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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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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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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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