We can only learn to love by loving. – Iris Murdoch
One doesnt have to get anywhere in a marriage. Its not a public conveyance. – Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving. – Iris Murdoch
One doesnt have to get anywhere in a marriage. Its not a public conveyance. – Iris Murdoch
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch
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. – Iris Murdoch
I tell again the oldest and the newest story of all the world, — the story of Invincible Love! This tale divine — ancient as the beginning of things, fresh and young as the passing hour — has forms and names various as humanity. – Amelia E. Huddleston Barr, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story, 1891