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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

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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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
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