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Iris Murdoch

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Better Happiness Life Oneself Quick Secret
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Divine Human Silence Touch Truth
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
What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Extraordinary Myself Satisfaction
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.
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Art Doubt Happiness Impossible Life Live
Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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Determination Eyes Herself Hope
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
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
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
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
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
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

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