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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

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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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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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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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