The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

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• Iris Murdoch:

  All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

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• Iris Murdoch:

  I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

• Iris Murdoch:

  Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

• Iris Murdoch:

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  Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

• Iris Murdoch:

  Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.