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

Iris Murdoch

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Deep Feeling Grief Myself Stay
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
How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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Empty Greatness Life Space
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
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Goodness Honesty Human Learning Magic Place Wonderful
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
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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
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
What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
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Myself Need Silence Soul World

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