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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
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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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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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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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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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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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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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