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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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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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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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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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