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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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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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