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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.
Iris Murdoch
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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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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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