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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
-Iris Murdoch
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Words Are The Most Subtle Symbols Which

Iris Murdoch
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. more often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.
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In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. a man who knows nothing of symbols is one of dante's sluggards. this is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).
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For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. by teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. by the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. they do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.
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Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. no flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. no matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. it's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.
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