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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.

Iris Murdoch

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
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Love Right Thinking Yourself
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 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
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
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 Yourself
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
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Beyond Greatness Present

People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.

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