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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

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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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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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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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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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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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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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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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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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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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