Author: Iris Murdoch

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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

- 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.

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

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

- Iris Murdoch

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

- Iris Murdoch

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

- Iris Murdoch

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

- Iris Murdoch

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

- Iris Murdoch

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

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

- Iris Murdoch

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

- Iris Murdoch

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