All Iris Murdoch Quotes
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
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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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Nature
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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 making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Iris Murdoch
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Iris Murdoch
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Iris Murdoch
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch
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