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

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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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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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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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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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youth is a marvelous garment
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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