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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Action Future Ourselves Sea
So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Death Live Moments Spirit Time
There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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Greatness Human Race
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
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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Moral Need Philosophy Politics
Anything that consoles is fake.
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Fake One Liner
Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Enough Love Rare Wasted
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Food Goodness Tolerance
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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Breathe Emotional Goodness Moments Myself Rule Woman
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination

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