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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Divine Human Silence Touch Truth
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
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
So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Death Live Moments Spirit Time
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
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
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
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Greatness Past Truth Word
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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Breathe Emotional Goodness Moments Myself Rule Woman
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Man Need Quiet Relationship Woman
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
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
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 from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

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