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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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 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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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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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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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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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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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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