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Iris Murdoch Quotes: 6

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

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

  • We can only learn to love by loving.

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

    Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature
  • Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

  • Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.