Iris Murdoch

Quotes

• “Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
• “Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”
• “Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
• “All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”
• “We can only learn to love by loving.”