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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
Author
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Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Humans
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It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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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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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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