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Real worship involves waiting.

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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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Waiting

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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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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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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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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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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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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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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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