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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

Iris Murdoch

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
IRIS MURDOCH

Darkness Imagination
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
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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Live Ourselves Philosophy
But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
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Different Existence Growth Past Present
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Distance Ourselves People
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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Fantasy Greatness Illusion Life Live Reality Wisdom World
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
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Body Human Life Mystery Oneself
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
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
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
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

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