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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

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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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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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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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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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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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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