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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Professor
Prosaist
Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable 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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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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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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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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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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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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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