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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

~Iris Murdoch

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

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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.

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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

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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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We can only learn to love by loving.

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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: July 15th, 1919

Died: February 8th, 1999

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