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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

Iris Murdoch

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Deep Feeling Grief Myself Stay
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
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
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
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
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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Character. Priviledge Fear Myself Passion People Thinking
I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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Enjoyment Myself Voice
I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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Different End Feeling Myself
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
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Food Goodness Tolerance
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
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
Youth is a marvelous garment.
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One Liner Youth

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

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