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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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
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
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Book Feeling Start Yourself
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Man Need Quiet Relationship Woman
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
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
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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Character. Priviledge Fear Myself Passion People Thinking
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Divine Human Silence Touch Truth

We can only learn to love by loving.

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