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“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

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“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: control, force, hurt, loss, love, pain, practice, risk, saftey, security

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“One can be too ingenious in trying to search out the truth. Sometimes one must simply respect its veiled face. Of course this is a love story.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

tags: acceptance, ambiguity, iris-murdoch, love-story, mysterious, the-sea-the-sea, truth, unknowable

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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil

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“white magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

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