"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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"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.“
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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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