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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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Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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