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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Iris Murdoch

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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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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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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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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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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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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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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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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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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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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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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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