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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

People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
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
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
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Disappoint Hope Human World
I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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Enjoyment Myself Voice
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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Easy Lie Oneself People
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Man Need Quiet Relationship Woman
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
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
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
So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Death Live Moments Spirit Time
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality

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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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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