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

Iris Murdoch

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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Inspirational Myself Oneself Sound Yourself
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
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
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Death Different Pursue See Worth
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
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
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
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 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
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
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
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
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

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