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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
Bereaved
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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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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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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