Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

—Iris Murdoch

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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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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

—Iris Murdoch

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

—Iris Murdoch

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

—Iris Murdoch

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

—Iris Murdoch

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

—Iris Murdoch

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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

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Facts are the enemy of truth.

—Miguel de Cervantes

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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

—Nicholas Chamfort

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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

—Albert Einstein

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

—George Bernard Shaw

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