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

Iris Murdoch

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness
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
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
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
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
I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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Enjoyment Myself Voice
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Extraordinary Myself Satisfaction
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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Breathe Emotional Goodness Moments Myself Rule Woman
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
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
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
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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Important Myself Nice Place Thinking Time Woman
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison

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