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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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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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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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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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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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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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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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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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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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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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