What did Iris Murdoch mean by: being homosexual doesn’t determine a man’s whole character any more than being heterosexual does. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
… a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Consequences, Ethics, Supernatural, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins. Author, June 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Involuntary, Jealousy, Sin, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Communication, Importance, Language, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ We can only learn to love by loving. Author, July 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Learning, Love, Relationships, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Communication, Connection, Marriage, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) […] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Art, Concealment, Words, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Author, October 13, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Character, Morality, Temperament, 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
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
