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Particular Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
- The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
- All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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