There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. -Iris Murdoch

 

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


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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

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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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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

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