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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

Iris Murdoch

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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Determination Eyes Herself Hope
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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Company Love Passion Yourself
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
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Body Human Life Mystery Oneself
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
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
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Distance Ourselves People
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
I’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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Alone Existence Imagination Life Myself World
Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.
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Courage Failure Hide Literature Moral Smile

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

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