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" I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. "
Iris Murdoch
Think
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" Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. "
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" We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. "
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" The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. "
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