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Iris Murdoch Quotes

Iris Murdoch quotes about life

Irish Author, Writer, Philosopher July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999

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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats."
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats. Iris Murdoch
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. Iris Murdoch
Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great..."
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch
I hate solitude, but i'm afraid if intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself. Iris Murdoch
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
Iris Murdoch quote: "He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle..."
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. Iris Murdoch

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