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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.

Iris Murdoch

Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
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
Anything that consoles is fake.
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Fake One Liner
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
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beautiful Break Up Fall Forget Love
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Book Ideas Perfection
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Art Greatness
Youth is a marvelous garment.
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One Liner Youth
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Defend Ourselves World
As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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Live Ourselves Philosophy
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
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Goodness Honesty Human Learning Magic Place Wonderful
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Better Happiness Life Oneself Quick Secret

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.

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