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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
Iris Murdoch
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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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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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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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