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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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Survival
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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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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? – Emile M. Cioran

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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. – Jim Bishop

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The future is made of the same stuff as the present. – Simone Weil

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It also allows you to look as though youre not particularly from the present, future or past, either. – Doug Coupland

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