"We can only learn to love by loving."
-Iris Murdoch
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"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.“
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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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"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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