Iris Murdoch
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris MurdochWe can only learn to love by loving.
Iris MurdochOne of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
Iris MurdochLove is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris MurdochFalling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris MurdochArt is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris MurdochIn 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 MurdochHappiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris MurdochLove is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris MurdochWe shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris MurdochFalling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris MurdochPerhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris MurdochPhilosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris MurdochAnything that consoles is fake.
Iris MurdochMoralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Iris Murdoch
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