What did Iris Murdoch mean by: Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues. - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ 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
+ Every artist is an unhappy lover. Feraz Zeid, October 9, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Artist, Philosophical, Unhappy, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Assertive, Self, Singing, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Marriage isn’t a tram. It doesn’t have to get anywhere. Feraz Zeid, October 14, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Marriage, 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 the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Art, Finals, Soul, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Most real relationships are involuntary. Feraz Zeid, September 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Involuntary, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Second Best, Sleep, Sound, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A man can keep another’s secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. - Frida Kahlo Painter · Mexico
If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France