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Iris Murdoch1919–1999

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch on happiness

A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970); 2001, p. 170.

Happiness Nature

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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.
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Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you, and be happy.
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