"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."
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Quotes by Iris Murdoch
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"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."
Iris Murdoch"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
Iris Murdoch"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
Iris Murdoch"We can only learn to love by loving."
Iris Murdoch"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
Iris Murdoch"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
Iris Murdoch"Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."
Iris Murdoch"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
Iris Murdoch"The cry of equality pulls everyone down."
Iris Murdoch"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."
Iris Murdoch"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"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."
Iris Murdoch