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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.