"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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"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.“
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"We can only learn to love by loving."
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"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."
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"The cry of equality pulls everyone down."
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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
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"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance."
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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