On Life and Death

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. |

– Iris Murdoch
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On Life and Death

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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.

Iris Murdoch

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Iris Murdoch

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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