Iris Murdoch
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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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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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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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.