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From Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
- Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
- Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
- It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a…
- People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be…
- Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we…
- Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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