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This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.

Iris Murdoch

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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Character. Priviledge Fear Myself Passion People Thinking
Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Enough Love Rare Wasted
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Food Greatness Happiness Oneself Reward Secret
Youth is a marvelous garment.
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One Liner Youth
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Food Goodness Tolerance
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Action Philosophy Talk
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
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
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
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
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
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
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
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.

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