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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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Easy Lie Oneself People
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 an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Extraordinary Myself Satisfaction
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
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
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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Inspirational Myself Oneself Sound Yourself
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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Act Emotion Existence Personality World
Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Enough Love Rare Wasted
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
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
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
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People

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