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Iris MurdochWe need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
Iris MurdochWhen does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.
Iris Murdochuntil I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.
Iris Murdoch