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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

Iris Murdoch

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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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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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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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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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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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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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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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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