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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.

Iris Murdoch

An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
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
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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Easy Lie Oneself People
However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.
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Art Doubt Happiness Impossible Life Live
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
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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Fantasy Greatness Illusion Life Live Reality Wisdom World
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
But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
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Different Existence Growth Past Present
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
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Action Future Ourselves Sea

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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