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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
" "Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, famed for her series of novels that combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines usually involving ethical or sexual themes. Her life-story was filmed in 2001 as Iris.
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I want to be cut off from people like Marloe. Being a real person oneself is a matter of setting up limits and drawing lines and saying no. I don't want to be a nebulous bit of ectoplasm straying around in other people's lives. That sort of vague sympathy with everybody precludes any real understanding of anybody . . . And it precludes any real loyalty to anybody.
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