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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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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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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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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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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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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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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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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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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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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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