Iris Murdoch - Oneself Quotes

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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Iris Murdoch

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

The chief requirement of the good life... is to live without any image of oneself.

Iris Murdoch

I hate solitude, but i'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.

Iris Murdoch

To be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

Iris Murdoch