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

Iris Murdoch

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
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
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
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
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
White magic is black magic. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
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Goodness Magic People Perfection Spiritual World
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
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
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Action Future Ourselves Sea
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
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
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

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