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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

Iris Murdoch

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
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
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
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Beyond Greatness Present
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
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
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness
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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
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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Act Emotion Existence Personality World
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
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
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
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
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

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