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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
Love
Impenetrable
Bereavement
Grief
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Darkness
Imagination
Suffering
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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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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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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