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

Iris Murdoch

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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Amazing Commitment Marriage Oneself Writing
Anything that consoles is fake.
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Fake One Liner
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
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Change Eyes Forever Hands World
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Flower Joy Mad People Thinking Time
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Food Goodness Tolerance
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Death Live Moments Spirit Time
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Education Fundamental Human Literature Understand
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness

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