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“It was not that she forgot the nature of her thoughts; it was rather that it had never occurred to her that thoughts "counted." In short, Mrs. Quest was like ninety-nine per cent of humanity: if she spent an afternoon jam-making, while her mind was filled with thoughts envious, spiteful, lustful--violent; then she had spent the afternoon making jam.”
― Doris Lessing, Landlocked

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“I thought to myself how the worst I had done really was not any of the little betrayals but in murdering my marriage with familiarity, and it was unfair because that is only what marriage demands, the careful establishing of familiarity in order to be able to live your life the next day and the next and the next.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

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“Pattie had made him believe in happiness. He was well aware how dangerous this belief was and that it was new. But he was aware too that the grace of happiness comes to those who have faith in it.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels

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“To grow old is to know that not circumstances but consciousness makes the happy and the sad.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels

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“I felt that if I could only get to beauty, something speechless and formless would be absolved in me--if I could only get beyond my own hands lathered in soap, chapped from flour and coins, hands which did not touch or receive touch, hands sewing by a circle of lamplight. ...Of course I know now that beauty is relative. Now I can pine for the swallows nesting in the roof of the lavoir, the dry dirt and grass under my feet, the river's winding path. Even a newly mopped flagstone, butter melting on potatoes, a mended white cloth to shake out over a table and set with things gleaming sharp and bright.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

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