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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 don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.
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Alone Enough Marriage Myself Past Reality Thinking Wrong
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
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 feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.
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Art Experience Life Live Right
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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Determination Eyes Herself Hope
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
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
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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Character. Priviledge Fear Myself Passion People Thinking
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
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
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
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Greatness Past Truth Word

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