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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

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
Trams
Anywhere
Marriage
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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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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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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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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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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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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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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