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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.

Iris Murdoch

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
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
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
Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
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Love Right Thinking Yourself
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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Civilization Growth Heart Man Transportation
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Beyond Greatness Present
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
There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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Greatness Human Race
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
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

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