People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
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- The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
- We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
- Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
- We can only learn to love by loving.
- Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.