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" Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. "

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" Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. "

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

" All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. "

" I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore. "

" We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. "

" We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. "

" He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. "

" Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! "

" There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. "

" Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. "

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" In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. "

" 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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" Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. "

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" 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. "

" One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. "

" Only lies and evil come from letting people off. "

" 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. "

" I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. "

" We can only learn to love by loving. "

" Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. "

" Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. "

" Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. "

" Anything that consoles is fake. "

" 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. "