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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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Novelist
Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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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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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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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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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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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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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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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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