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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.

Iris Murdoch

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
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
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
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
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
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
Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.
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Art Experience Life Live Right
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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Fantasy Greatness Illusion Life Live Reality Wisdom World
Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Enough Love Rare Wasted
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Food Goodness Tolerance
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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Alive Happiness Human Time
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
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value

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