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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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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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