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Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.

Iris Murdoch

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
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Fear Fundamental Human Marriage Nature
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
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
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
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
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
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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
I’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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Alone Existence Imagination Life Myself World
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
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
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word

Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.

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