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Iris Murdoch on Love and Otherness

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love…is the discovery of reality.”

–Iris Murdoch (“The Sublime and the Good”, in the Chicago Review, Vol. 13, 1959, p. 51)

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    astrotometry

    Is it the only other thing that is real?

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