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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real… — Iris Murdoch

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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch
1959
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1959
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Iris Murdoch
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Murdoch, Iris. "The Sublime and the Good." Chicago Review, vol. 13, no. 3, autumn 1959.

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