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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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