We can only learn to love by loving. — Quoted

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“We can only learn to love by loving.”

Iris Murdoch · Love

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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.

Happiness

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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Women

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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.

Marriage

Iris Murdoch

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Nature