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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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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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... 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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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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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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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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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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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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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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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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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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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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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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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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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