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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

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
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
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Goodness Honesty Human Learning Magic Place Wonderful
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Enough Love Rare Wasted
How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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Empty Greatness Life Space
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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Alive Happiness Human Time
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
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
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
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
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

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