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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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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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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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 bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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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 sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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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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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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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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