Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

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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.

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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

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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.

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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

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