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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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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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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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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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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 chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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