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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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Philosopher
Poet
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
Marriage
Doesn
Tram
Trams
Anywhere

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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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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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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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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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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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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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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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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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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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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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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