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One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.

Iris Murdoch

Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
IRIS MURDOCH

Guilty One Liner People Prison
So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Death Live Moments Spirit Time
One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
IRIS MURDOCH

Easy Lie Oneself People
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
IRIS MURDOCH

Crime Sin Spiritual
I’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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Alone Existence Imagination Life Myself World
I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Deep Feeling Grief Myself Stay
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
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
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
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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Enjoyment Myself Voice
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH

Action Philosophy Talk
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
IRIS MURDOCH

Difficult Love Oneself Reality

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