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Iris Murdoch
Profession : Author
Birth : July 15, 1919
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We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Iris Murdoch
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
Iris Murdoch
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Iris Murdoch
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris Murdoch
Anything that consoles is fake.
Iris Murdoch
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Iris Murdoch
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Iris Murdoch
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
Iris Murdoch
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch
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