Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
From Iris Murdoch
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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