Iris Murdoch Quotes About Life
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul in its search for Good, the force that joins us to Good and joins us to the world through Good. Its existence is the unmistakable sign that we are spiritual creatures, attracted by excellence and made for the Good. It is a reflection of the warmth and light of the sun.
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