"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

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But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.
More Iris Murdoch quotes
"There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
"We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
"As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlit...
"However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating...
"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 ...