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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

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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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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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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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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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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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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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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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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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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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