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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.

Iris Murdoch

Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
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
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Better Happiness Life Oneself Quick Secret
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
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
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
Anything that consoles is fake.
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Fake One Liner
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
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
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
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Extraordinary Myself Satisfaction
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison

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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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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