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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

Iris Murdoch

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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Civilization Growth Heart Man Transportation
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
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
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story
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
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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Connection Important Kind Language Reading Writing
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
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
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
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
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Better Happiness Life Oneself Quick Secret

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