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However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.
However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.
Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
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- Iris Murdoch
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- Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1919 to 1999; Wikidata Q217495, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217495 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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