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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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Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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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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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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