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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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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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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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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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