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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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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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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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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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