"How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived."

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Iris Murdoch

#Happiness Quotes #Insult Quotes #Innocent Quotes

“Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.”
“In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.”
“Mickey Mantle was baseball.”
“In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.”
“The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.”
“Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.”
“You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.”
“Words are the voice of the heart.”

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