What did Iris Murdoch mean by: How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Art, Literature, Struggle, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ A middling talent makes for a more serene life. Feraz Zeid, October 9, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Talent, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Communication, Dense, Happy Marriage, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love. Feraz Zeid, August 13, 2023December 12, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Giving Up, Jealousy, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Feraz Zeid, October 3, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Cycling, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Demon, Wonder, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) […] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Art, Concealment, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Criticism, Important, Rain, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Don’t wait to be happy to laugh… You may die and never have laughed. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. - Jean Houston Scholar
I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us. - Jean le Rond d'Alembert Mathematician and physicist · France
The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art - William Blake Poet and artist · England
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
