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Every artist is an unhappy lover.

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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
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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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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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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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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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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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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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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