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Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.

Iris Murdoch

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Beyond Greatness Present
Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
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Love Right Thinking Yourself
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Better Happiness Life Oneself Quick Secret
Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Enough Love Rare Wasted
To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.
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Lose Person Photograph Poem Sea
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Divine Human Silence Touch Truth
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Food Goodness Tolerance
What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
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Myself Need Silence Soul World
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
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
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich

Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.

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