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• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
  Iris Murdoch...
• Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
• A more intimate theology, and one more consonant with the nature of.
  ..love, pictures a demonic force engaged in continuous creation and participation. -- Iris Murdoch...
• Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
• Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• Love... is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
  -- Iris Murdoch...