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Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.

Iris Murdoch

Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Enough Love Rare Wasted
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Death Live Moments Spirit Time
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
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Important Rain
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
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
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Disappoint Myself People
That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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Inspirational Myself Oneself Sound Yourself
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
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
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
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison

Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.

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Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.

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