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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

Iris Murdoch

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Education Fundamental Human Literature Understand
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Beyond Greatness Present
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
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
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
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
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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Amazing Commitment Marriage Oneself Writing
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
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
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
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
What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Extraordinary Myself Satisfaction
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

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