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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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Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

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Happiness
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Iris Murdoch
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. – Iris Murdoch

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Marriage
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Iris Murdoch
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Love
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Love

To find love some day—there was a fit ambition for every human heart! But how often it was pushed aside by greed, by cynicism, by selfishness, by fear—by any number of cold and worldly things! – Burton E. Stevenson, The Kingmakers, “Chapter XIX: Selden Takes an Inventory,” 1

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Love

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. – Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love

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Love

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. – Carl Jung

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Love

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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. – William Penn

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. – Dante Alighieri

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