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Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.

Iris Murdoch

Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.
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Act Emotion Existence Personality World
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
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
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
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
How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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Empty Greatness Life Space
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
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

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