About Iris Murdoch
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was...
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Love… is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Sometimes it's better not to look back.
—Ransom Riggs in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew.
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