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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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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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