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Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) is the author of twenty-six novels, including Under the Net, The Black Prince, and The Sea, The Sea, as well as several plays and a volume of poetry. Murdoch taught philosophy at Oxford before leaving to write fulltime, winning such literary awards as the Booker Prize and the PEN Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.
years of life: 15 July 1919 – present

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I tried, out of a sort of last-resort self-preserving wisdom, to suffer purely. O you my fellow sufferers, you who mourn in waning hope and in ingenious fantastic yearning the loss of the beloved, let me give you at least this advice: suffer purely. Banish remorse, banish resentment and the screaming contortions
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And she came straight to you?’
‘I suppose so. She arrived pretty soon after Arnold—’
‘And what did she say?’
‘Do stop looking like King Lear—’
‘What did she say?
elf1001has quoted2 years ago
(Black Prince. Bradley Pearson.

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