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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
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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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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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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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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