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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• A more intimate theology, and one more consonant with the nature of.
  ..love, pictures a demonic force engaged in continuous creation and participation. -- Iris Murdoch...
• Love... is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• Coming events do cast shadows. Writers know that their books are often prophetic.
  One gratuitously imagines what is really going to happen....
• Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance.
  If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? -- Edith Sitwell...
• If one wants to rid oneself of an unbearable oppression, one needs hashish." -- Nietzsche
• No one panic until it's necessary.
• It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.