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Iris Murdoch Quotes: You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
         

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.


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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.



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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.



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