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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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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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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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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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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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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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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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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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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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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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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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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