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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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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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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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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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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