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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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. – Iris Murdoch

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Marriage
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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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Future
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. – Iris Murdoch

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

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If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individuals instinct for self preservation. – Albert Einstein

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