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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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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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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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