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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.

Iris Murdoch

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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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Company Love Passion Yourself
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Disappoint Hope Human World
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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Amazing Commitment Marriage Oneself Writing
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
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
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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Civilization Growth Heart Man Transportation
Anything that consoles is fake.
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