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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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