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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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Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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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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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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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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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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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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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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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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