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Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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Iris Murdoch

Birthname

AKA: Iris Murdoch

Birthday: July 15, 1919

Death: February 8, 1999

Educated At: Newnham College, Badminton School, Somerville College

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: Ireland

Occupations: Philosopher, Novelist, Biographer, Writer, Poet

Spouse: John Bayley

Total quotes: 3

“More simply, I wanted time to think; more simply still, time to feel.”

— Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

Tagged: Time, Space

“Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.”

— Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

Tagged: emotions, Feelings, Personality, Attitude, human actions, World, Life, the world is a stage

“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.”

— Iris Murdoch, Iris Murdoch: The Essential Guide

Tagged: Desire, Love, Passion

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