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How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.

Iris Murdoch

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
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
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
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
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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Fantasy Guilty Judgement Ourselves Sin World
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
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
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
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
One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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Easy Lie Oneself People
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 take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
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Change Eyes Forever Hands World

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