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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
-Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Sadness Piercings Unhappiness

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Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. can they possibly think that is beautiful? it is a passing fancy, but its effects can be permanent. some have gone to such extremes that the ring had to be removed by surgery. the first presidency and the quorum of the twelve have declared that we discourage tattoos and also “the piercing of the body for other than medical purposes.” we do not, however, take any position “on the minimal piercing of the ears by women for one pair of earrings”-one pair only.
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Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.
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Imagination can't create anything new, can it? it only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... so when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. nothing unknown is knowable.
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