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

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Love Vulnerability

Author

Iris Murdoch

Source

Chicago Review

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

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

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Time
1957 1950s 20th century
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