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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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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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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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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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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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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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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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