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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Iris Murdoch

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Flower Joy Mad People Thinking Time
Anything that consoles is fake.
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Fake One Liner
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
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
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Book Feeling Start Yourself
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
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Different Existence Growth Past Present
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
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Body Human Life Mystery Oneself
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
I’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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Alone Existence Imagination Life Myself World
I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.
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Best Hate Kill Myself Pain World
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Death Different Pursue See Worth
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed

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