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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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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Unhappy
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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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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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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