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• Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• Love... is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
  Iris Murdoch...
• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. -- Edward Abbey
• Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation, and devise elaborate theories to describe its behavior.
  But always they discover in the end that God was quite a bit more clever than they thought....
• We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
  -- Iris Murdoch...