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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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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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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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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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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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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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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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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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