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I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.

Iris Murdoch

An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
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
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Death Different Pursue See Worth
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Deep Feeling Grief Myself Stay
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
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
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
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Important Myself Nice Place Thinking Time Woman
I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.
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Best Hate Kill Myself Pain World
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word

I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.

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