The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Quote by Iris Murdoch

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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they...

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they...

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's...

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's...

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go...

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go...

We can only learn to love by loving.

We can only learn to love by loving.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy...

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at...

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at...

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass...

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass...

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they...

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they...

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all...

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all...