Quote by Iris Murdoch
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is,

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. – Iris Murdoch

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Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – Iris Murdoch

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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. – George Orwell

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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They dont know how – Elie Wiesel

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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price. – Elie Wiesel

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The American people are sheep. Theyre comfortable, rich, working. Its like the Romans, theyre happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right. – Jack Kevorkian

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And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. – Terri Guillemets

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Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. – Jean Baudrillard

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