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

Iris Murdoch

One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
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
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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Company Love Passion Yourself
Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Enough Love Rare Wasted
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
I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.
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Best Hate Kill Myself Pain World
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
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
Youth is a marvelous garment.
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One Liner Youth
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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Moral Need Philosophy Politics
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.
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Act Emotion Existence Personality World

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