Iris Murdoch: Irish-British novelist and philosopher, 1919 to 1999.
Iris Murdoch · The source reads: “God can always show us, if we will, a higher and a better way; and we can only learn to love by loving.” · The Abbess's counsel to Michael Meade, remembered with her other saying, that the way is always forward, never back.
Iris Murdoch · The source reads: “Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.” · The philosopher's definition, in the familiar shortened form; the essay reads "Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."
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