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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?

Iris Murdoch

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
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
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
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
Anything that consoles is fake.
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Fake One Liner
Youth is a marvelous garment.
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One Liner Youth
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
Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
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Change Eyes Forever Hands World
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
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Distance Ourselves People
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
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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