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Iris Murdoch Quotes: All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
         

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.


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