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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

Iris Murdoch

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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Character. Priviledge Fear Myself Passion People Thinking
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
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
I don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.
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Alone Enough Marriage Myself Past Reality Thinking Wrong
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
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Man Need Quiet Relationship Woman
Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Enough Love Rare Wasted
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Beyond Greatness Present
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 feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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Different End Feeling Myself
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
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

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

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