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youth is a marvelous garment

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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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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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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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