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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

“Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.”
― Iris Murdoch

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― H. Rider Haggard, She

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life”
― James Baldwin