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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

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
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
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
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 defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
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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Myself Need Silence Soul World
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
I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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Different End Feeling Myself
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
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Man Need Quiet Relationship Woman
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Book Feeling Start Yourself

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