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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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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
Author
Biographer
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Future
Better
Doomed
Time
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Terrible

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