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

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

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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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