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Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.

Iris Murdoch

Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
IRIS MURDOCH

Love Right Thinking Yourself
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
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Food Goodness Tolerance
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
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
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
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
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
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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Moral Need Philosophy Politics
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
IRIS MURDOCH

Art Greatness

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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