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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...
• Love... is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• Love is when you look into your lover's eyes and see God smiling back at you. -- Solomon Sho
• A more intimate theology, and one more consonant with the nature of.
  ..love, pictures a demonic force engaged in continuous creation and participation. -- Iris Murdoch...
• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
  Iris Murdoch...
• All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
  -- 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...
• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. -- Iris Murdoch
• Beer Goggles. See the world through the eyes of a drunk