Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

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• Iris Murdoch:

  I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

• Iris Murdoch:

  Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

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

• Iris Murdoch:

  Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

• Iris Murdoch:

  We can only learn to love by loving.

• Iris Murdoch:

  The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

• Iris Murdoch:

  Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

• Iris Murdoch:

  Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

• Iris Murdoch:

  Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

• Iris Murdoch:

  Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.