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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

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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 letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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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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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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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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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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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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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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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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