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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

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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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It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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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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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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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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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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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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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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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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