Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Quote by Iris Murdoch

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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...

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is...

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is...

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.

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...

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to...

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to...

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

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.

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

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

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.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than...

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than...

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world...

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world...

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...

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice,...

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice,...

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...

Good luck beats early rising

Good luck beats early rising

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest...

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest...

What luck for the rulers that men do not think

What luck for the rulers that men do not think

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.