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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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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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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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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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