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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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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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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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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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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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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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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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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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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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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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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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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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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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