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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

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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Cloudy
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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 sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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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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It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
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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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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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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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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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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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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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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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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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