Iris Murdoch

Citations

• “Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

• “Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one’s ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”

• “People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

• “Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.”

• “Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.”

Les livres de Iris Murdoch dans l'ordre

Les livres de Iris Murdoch dans l'ordre de parution, de Sartre, Romantic Rationalist (1953) à A Writer at War (2010).

1. 1Sartre, Romantic RationalistSartre, Romantic Rationalist1953
2. 2Sotto La ReteSotto La Rete1954
3. 3The Flight from the EnchanterThe Flight from the Enchanter1956
4. 4Le château de sableLe château de sable1957
5. 5Les ClochesLes Cloches1958
6. 6Une tête coupéeUne tête coupée1961
7. 7An Unofficial RoseAn Unofficial Rose1962
8. 8The UnicornThe Unicorn1963
9. 9La Gouvernante ItalienneLa Gouvernante Italienne1964
10. 10The Time of the AngelsThe Time of the Angels1966
11. 11The Sovereignty of GoodThe Sovereignty of Good1967
    Ce qu'il contient (3)

    • The Idea of Perfection
    • On God and Good
    • The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts
12. 12The Nice and the GoodThe Nice and the Good1968
13. 13An Accidental ManAn Accidental Man1971
14. 14Le Prince noirLe Prince noir1973
15. 15The Sea, the SeaThe Sea, the Sea1978
16. 16Soldats Et Les NonnesSoldats Et Les Nonnes1980
17. 17The Philosopher's PupilThe Philosopher's Pupil1983
18. 18Apprenti Du BienApprenti Du Bien1985
19. 19Metaphysics as a Guide to MoralsMetaphysics as a Guide to Morals1992
20. 20Existentialists and MysticsExistentialists and Mystics1993
21. 21Something SpecialSomething Special1999
22. 22A Writer at WarA Writer at War2010