"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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Source : Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin

Iris Murdoch

#Nature Quotes #Flower Quotes #Sunshine Quotes

“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.”
“To be great, art has to point somewhere.”
“It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born.”

Source : George Ticknor (1877). “Life, Letters, and Journals”
“I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.”
“The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.”
“We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.”
“Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.”
“I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.”

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