Iris Murdoch — Irish Author born on July 15, 1919, died on February 08, 1999

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her books include The Bell, A Severed Head, The Red and the Green, The Nice and the Good, The Black Prince, Henry and Cato, The Sea, the Sea, The Philosopher’s Pupil, The Good Apprentice, The Book and the Brotherhood, The Message to the Planet, and The Green Knight. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"... (wikipedia)

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.