"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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"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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"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."
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