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Iris Murdoch

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One doesn’t have to get anywhere in a marriage. It’s not a public conveyance.

Iris Murdoch

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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Iris Murdoch

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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.

Iris Murdoch

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All theorizing is flight. We must be ruled by the situation itself and this is unutterably particular. Indeed it is something to which we can never get close enough, however hard we may try as it were to crawl under the net.

Iris Murdoch

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Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Iris Murdoch

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Iris Murdoch

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