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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
Author
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
Vision
Clear
Hate
Love
Cloudy
Hatred

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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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