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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Philosopher
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Professor
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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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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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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