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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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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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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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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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