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Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
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Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
Muriel Spark
Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
Muriel Spark
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Muriel Spark
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
Muriel Spark
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
Muriel Spark
I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
Muriel Spark
There was altogether too much candor in married life it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.
Muriel Spark
The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
Muriel Spark
Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
Muriel Spark
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.
Muriel Spark
The word education comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark
Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
Muriel Spark
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
Muriel Spark
Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
Muriel Spark
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Muriel Spark
The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.
Muriel Spark
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
Muriel Spark
Beware the ire of the calm.
Muriel Spark