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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

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
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
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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Moral Need Philosophy Politics
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Distance Ourselves People
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
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
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
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
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
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
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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Greatness Past Truth Word
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Man Need Quiet Relationship Woman
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking

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