“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
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Iris Murdoch was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 2001 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch
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“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
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“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
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“What we can see determines what we choose. Good is the distant source of light, it is the unimaginable object of our desire. Our fallen nature knows only its name and its perfection. That is...”
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“I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those you cannot help. Have faith in God and remember that He will is His own way and in His ow...”
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“You can't go through the looking-glass without getting cut. You know that now, don't you?”
“Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the m...”
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“Happiness. What's that? I don't know. How can one be happy when one loves a demon?”
“She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.”
“Ludens felt again that special curious anguish caused by glimpses of a happiness he would have felt if only things were different — which could be different, perhaps could easily be differen...”
“Oh Christ, if I could only have some happiness.”
“Happiness must exist. It can't all be made of pain. But what is happiness made of?”
“…we have futures. That means we can make things true…”
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“It's just that I don't hope any more, I've lost my nerve.”
“But by now anything was better than hope.”
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“There is a kind of despair involved in creation which I am sure any artist knows all about. In art, as in morality, great things go by the board because at the crucial moment we blink our ey...”
“Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?' Mrs. Marks laughed. 'Not imprisoned, my dear,' she said. 'They are t...”
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“There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.”
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“There are eternal bonds which are made in registry offices and in churches, there are eternal bonds which are made in other and stranger and more terrible ways.”
“Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?”
“I must stay with you, stay near you, do your will, or die.”