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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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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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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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