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

Iris Murdoch

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.
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Black Emotional Lie Strong World
I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
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Important Myself Nice Place Thinking Time Woman
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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Amazing Commitment Marriage Oneself Writing
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Food Goodness Tolerance
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
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
Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.
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Courage Failure Hide Literature Moral Smile
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Man Need Quiet Relationship Woman
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
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
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
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
Anything that consoles is fake.
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Fake One Liner

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

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