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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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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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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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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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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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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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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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