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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

Iris Murdoch

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
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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Greatness Past Truth Word
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
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
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
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
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
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Flower Joy Mad People Thinking Time
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Book Feeling Start Yourself
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
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time

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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