Author: Iris Murdoch

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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

- Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving.

We can only learn to love by loving.

- 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

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

- 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

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

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

- 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

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

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