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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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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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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 chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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