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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Succeed
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Everyone
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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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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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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