We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. - Iris Murdoch

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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. - Dorothy Day quotes