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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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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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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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.
Iris Murdoch
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
Iris Murdoch
Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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