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Iris Murdoch
Irish
Author
Born:
Jul 15
,
1919
Died:
Feb 8
,
1999
Life
Love
Love Is
Matter
People
Think
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch
Life
Truth
Great
Reality
World
Illusion
Live
Find
Task
Fantasy
Fantasy World
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
Happiness
Matter
Being Busy
Busy
Everyday
Unconcerned
Self
Most
Mode
Being
Ordinary
Lively
Consciousness
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch
Love
Moving On
Love Is
Matter
Out
Someone
Charming
How
Falling
Chiefly
Forgetting
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris Murdoch
Love
Love Is
Worth
Entirely
No Love
Calls
Without
Frivolous
Even
Base
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
Writing
Luck
Married
Oneself
Never
Like
Until
Amazed
Commit
Getting
Getting Married
Should
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
You
Woman
Important
Nice
Think
Everyone
Says
Take
Like
Irish
Same
Being
Place
Second
Second Place
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch
You
Philosophy
Snail
Pace
Moving
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch
Needs
Man
Women
Men
Every
Thrilling
Quiet
Man Needs
Every Man
Two
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Iris Murdoch
Truth
Truth Is
Moral
Brown
Moralistic
Generic
Like
Well
Spectrum
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