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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
Iris Murdoch
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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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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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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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