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Youth is a marvelous garment.

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
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Death Different Pursue See Worth
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
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
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
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
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
Youth is a marvelous garment.
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One Liner Youth
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
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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Fantasy Guilty Judgement Ourselves Sin World
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
I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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Alive Happiness Human Time
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality

Youth is a marvelous garment.

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