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A death is the most terrible of facts.

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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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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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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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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 brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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