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Iris Murdoch Quotes


Brief author info: Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) Irish writer, novelist, essayist, and philosopher; first works in philosophy; later, explored philosophic ideas in novels; works typically deal with nature of freedom and love; often incorporates gothic elements; known for wit, imagination, and comic inventiveness.


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We can only learn to love by loving.
Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
... where does one person end and another person begin?
To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
A death is the most terrible of facts.
We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.


Sad Quote
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now


Motivational Quote
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Happiness Quote
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Age Quote
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.

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