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

Iris Murdoch

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
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Disappoint Hope Human World
Youth is a marvelous garment.
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One Liner Youth
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.
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Black Emotional Lie Strong World
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
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
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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Love Right Thinking Yourself
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness
Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
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Fear Fundamental Human Marriage Nature
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality

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