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Iris Murdoch

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
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
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
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
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
What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
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Myself Need Silence Soul World
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
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
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Beyond Greatness Present
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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Company Love Passion Yourself
White magic is black magic. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
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Goodness Magic People Perfection Spiritual World
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness

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