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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me

Iris Murdoch

We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
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
I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
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Important Myself Nice Place Thinking Time Woman
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
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
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
Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.
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Courage Failure Hide Literature Moral Smile
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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Fantasy Greatness Illusion Life Live Reality Wisdom World
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
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
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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