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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.

Iris Murdoch

To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.
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Lose Person Photograph Poem Sea
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
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Fade Feeling Myself Old Photograph
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Comfortable Relationship
I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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Breathe Emotional Goodness Moments Myself Rule Woman
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
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
Anything that consoles is fake.
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Fake One Liner
I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Deep Feeling Grief Myself Stay
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
White magic is black magic. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
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Goodness Magic People Perfection Spiritual World
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Beyond Greatness Present
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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Amazing Commitment Marriage Oneself Writing
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
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

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