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Most real relationships are involuntary.

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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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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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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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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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