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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

Iris Murdoch

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
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
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
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
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
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
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Man Need Quiet Relationship Woman
To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.
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Lose Person Photograph Poem Sea
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Education Fundamental Human Literature Understand
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
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality

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