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What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.

Iris Murdoch

In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
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
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
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.
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Education Fundamental Human Literature Understand
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
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
Anything that consoles is fake.
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Fake One Liner
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
But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
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Different Existence Growth Past Present
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
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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Flower Joy Mad People Thinking Time
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Distance Ourselves People
I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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Enjoyment Myself Voice

What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.

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