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Iris Murdoch

  • The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.... Iris Murdoch {view}
  • Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.... Iris Murdoch {view}
  • The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.... Iris Murdoch {view}
  • In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.... Iris Murdoch {view}