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There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern...

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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

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He felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

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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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The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

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Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch

Born: July 15, 1919

Died: February 8, 1999 (aged 79)

Bio: Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish author and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

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