Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

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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.

IRIS MURDOCH

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
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.

IRIS MURDOCH

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
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.

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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
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Body Human Life Mystery Oneself
We can only learn to love by loving.

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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
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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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
An experience is richest not talked of.

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An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
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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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
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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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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Emotion Existence Personality World
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

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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 may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness
The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life’s most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.

IRIS MURDOCH

The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life’s most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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Escape Life Love Talk Value
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Food Goodness Tolerance
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?

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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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Fantasy Greatness Illusion Life Live Reality Wisdom World
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.

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 Philosophy
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

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