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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Iris Murdoch
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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
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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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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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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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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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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