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Iris Murdoch [1919-1999] Irish

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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE was an Irish novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

Art, Love, Marriage, Equality, Great, Happiness, Life, Men, Moving On, Nature, Relationship, Space, Truth, Wisdom, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.	Great, Life, Truth	101
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.		102
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.	Wisdom	103
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.	Love	104
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.		105
We can only learn to love by loving.	Love	106
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.		107
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.		108
Anything that consoles is fake.		109
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.	Men, Women	110
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.		111
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.	Marriage	112
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.	Nature	113
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.	Happiness	114
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.		115
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.		116
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.	Art	117
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.	Moving On	118
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.	Art	119
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.	Equality	120
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.		121
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.		122
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.	Space	123
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.		124
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.	Relationship	125
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!		126
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.		201
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.		202
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.	Marriage	203
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.		204
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.		205
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.		206
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.		207
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.		208
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.		209
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.		210

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