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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

Iris Murdoch

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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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Empty Greatness Life Space
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
I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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Enjoyment Myself Voice
Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Enough Love Rare Wasted
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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Connection Important Kind Language Reading Writing
Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.
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Art Experience Life Live Right
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Education Fundamental Human Literature Understand
I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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Different End Feeling Myself
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

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