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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.
— Iris Murdoch Under the Net
Tags: time, meaning, death

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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
— Iris Murdoch
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
— Iris Murdoch
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
— Iris Murdoch
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
— Iris Murdoch
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
— Iris Murdoch
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