Quote by Iris Murdoch
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly tak

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – Iris Murdoch

Other quotes by 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

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Survival
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. – Iris Murdoch

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Love
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Other Quotes from
Marriage
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Sometimes divorce is better than marriage. – Sumner Redstone

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Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. – Hoshang N. Akhtar

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Marriage

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. – George Eliot

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Marriage

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. – Mary Wesley

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Marriage

Random Quotes

The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it. – Danish proverb

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Facts

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldnt touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. – Mother Teresa

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God

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements? – Robert Brault, “Sparsely Sage, Mostly Rosemary and Thyme,” rbrault.blogspot.com

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Attitude

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that. – Erich Heller

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Perspective