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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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It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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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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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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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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