Dame Jean Iris Murdoch:
(Dublin, 15 July 1919 – Oxford, 8 February 1999).
Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to alter her text. Murdoch produced 26 novels in 40 years, the last one she wrote while suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Freedom may be value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
We can only learn to love by loving.
