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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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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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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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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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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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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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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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