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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 ma...
By Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
By Iris Murdoch
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
By 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.
By 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.
By Iris Murdoch
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
By Iris Murdoch
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
By Iris Murdoch
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
By Iris Murdoch