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Quote by Iris Murdoch
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible,

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

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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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