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

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
Author
Biographer
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Love
Chiefly
Life
Forgetting
Charming
Falling
Forget
Fall
Someone

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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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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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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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youth is a marvelous garment
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