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Oneself Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
- Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of…
- I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue…
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