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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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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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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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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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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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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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