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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

Iris Murdoch

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
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
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.
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Art Doubt Happiness Impossible Life Live
Youth is a marvelous garment.
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One Liner Youth
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
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
Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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Determination Eyes Herself Hope
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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Amazing Commitment Marriage Oneself Writing
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

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