What did Iris Murdoch mean by: Another person’s illness is often harder to bear than one’s own. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. Author, July 13, 2023December 25, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Creation, Imperfection, Reflection, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Food, Reading, Thinking, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Creativity, Reflection, Transformation, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ evil soon makes tools out of those who don’t hate it. Author, July 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Deception, Hatred, Manipulation, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation. Author, June 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Civilization, Conflict, Truth, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ All our failures are ultimately failures in love. Author, September 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Failure, Love, Relationships, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story. Author, December 23, 2023December 29, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Expression, Love, Unhappiness, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ My heart was beating like an army on the march. Author, June 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Excitement, Fear, Intensity, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art. Maurice Merleau-Ponty Philosopher · France
