“We can only learn to love by loving.”

— Iris Murdoch · Love quote

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

— IRIS MURDOCH

Novelist and philosopher · 1919 – 1999

Dame Iris Murdoch was an Irish-British novelist and philosopher whose works, including The Sea, The Sea and Under the Net, explore good and evil, morality and the inner life. She won the Booker Prize in 1978.

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