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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
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Jean Iris Murdoch
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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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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