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“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”

Iris Murdoch · Relationship

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Iris Murdoch

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Nature

Iris Murdoch

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

Happiness

Iris Murdoch

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.

Marriage

Iris Murdoch

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Equality