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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. it is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
-Iris Murdoch
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For Most Of Us, For Almost All

Iris Murdoch
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. it is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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