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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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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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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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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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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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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 live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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