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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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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Jean Iris Murdoch
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