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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
-Iris Murdoch
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Happiness Is A Matter Of One's Most

Iris Murdoch
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?
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