"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance."
-Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919–8 February 1999)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Busy Very Busy
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self."
-Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919–8 February 1999)
-Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919–8 February 1999)
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Get Real
"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
- Margery Williams from "The Velveteen Rabbit" (1922)
- Margery Williams from "The Velveteen Rabbit" (1922)
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