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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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