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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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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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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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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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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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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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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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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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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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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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