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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
Art
Soul
Gods
Cunning
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch
Love
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Iris Murdoch
Being
Irish
Woman
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Iris Murdoch
Being
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch
Life
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
Happiness
Being
Consciousness
Self
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch
Love
Eyes
World
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch
Marriage
Giving
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch
Home
Man
Needs
Quiet
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris Murdoch
Art
Death
Imagination
Fantasy
Pornography
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch
Philosophy
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Iris Murdoch
Being
End
Temperament
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Iris Murdoch
Marriage
Public
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Iris Murdoch
Art
Struggle
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Iris Murdoch
Saying