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Iris Murdoch

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

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Amber Hurdle

"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."

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Amber Hurdle

"These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart."

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Amber Hurdle

"To love is to act."

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Amber Hurdle

"Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn't admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love withthe way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be."

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Amber Hurdle

"Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love-be there for others-bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest."

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"The mind judges in order to love. The heart just loves unconditionally."

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Amber Hurdle

"If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?"

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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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"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."
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"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance."
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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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"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."
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"I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped."
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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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