Dispelling Quote by Iris Murdoch

“There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.”

Iris Murdoch

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being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

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It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

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“Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.”

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