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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
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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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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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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