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What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

Iris Murdoch

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
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Body Human Life Mystery Oneself
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
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
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
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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Divine Human Silence Touch Truth
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
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
What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
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Myself Need Silence Soul World
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

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