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Every artist is an unhappy lover.

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
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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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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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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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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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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