"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.“


-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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