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  I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.

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  Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

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  That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me

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  Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

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  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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  There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

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  Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

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  We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.

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  I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

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  I’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.

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  An experience is richest not talked of.

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  Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.

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  We can only learn to love by loving.

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  We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

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  One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.

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  I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

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  Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

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  Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

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  I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.

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  Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.

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  To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.

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  What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.

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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.

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  I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

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  Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

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  Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

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  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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