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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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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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Real worship involves waiting.
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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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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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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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