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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
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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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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It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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