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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.

Iris Murdoch

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
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Fear Fundamental Human Marriage Nature
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Action Future Ourselves Sea
How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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Empty Greatness Life Space
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
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy 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
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
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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Moral Need Philosophy Politics
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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
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
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Disappoint Hope Human World
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

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