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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
Author
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Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
Misery
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Suffering
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Paths
Cuts
Unhappiness

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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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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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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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... 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 shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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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 no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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