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

Iris Murdoch

Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Deep Philosophy Sea Time
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Disappoint Hope Human World
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
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
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
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
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
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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Connection Important Kind Language Reading Writing
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
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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Moral Need Philosophy Politics
Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
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
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
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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