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Quote by Iris Murdoch
We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving. – Iris Murdoch

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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch

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Survival
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Iris Murdoch
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. – Iris Murdoch

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Love
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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. – Iris Murdoch

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Marriage
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever. – Euripides

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Love

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – its apathy. Its not giving a damn. – Leo Buscaglia

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Love

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Love

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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. – George Washington Carver

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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. – Bo Bennett

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Age

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. – Temple Grandin

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In the case of my book, I dont think its really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom hes enjoyed a sexual experience, etc. – Edmund White

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teacher