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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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Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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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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