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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.

Iris Murdoch

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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Civilization Growth Heart Man Transportation
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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Easy Lie Oneself People
I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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Different End Feeling Myself
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Extraordinary Myself Satisfaction
I don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.
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Alone Enough Marriage Myself Past Reality Thinking Wrong
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Disappoint Hope Human World
Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
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Fear Fundamental Human Marriage Nature
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
Youth is a marvelous garment.
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One Liner Youth
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Food Goodness Tolerance
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Education Fundamental Human Literature Understand

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