What can one do with the past? Forgive it. Let it enter into you in peace.
Iris Murdoch Quotes
We can only learn to love by loving.
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| Birth: | 15th July, 1919 |
| Death: | 8th February, 1999 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Novelist, Philosopher |
About
Dame Iris Murdoch was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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