Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdochto be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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 Murdoch