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

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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. – Iris Murdoch

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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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