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- Author Iris Murdoch
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And she did seem then to go to sleep instantly: the quick flight into oblivion of the chronically unhappy person.
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Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell.""Well, get out of hell then! The gate's open and I'm holding it!""I can't. I'm hell, myself.
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We were eternally divided. And it somehow seemed strange to me that this had not happened earlier, so dangerous were we to each other.
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You die at heart from a withdrawal of love.
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The only cure here was death. They were both gone out of my life.
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I've felt as if I didn't exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can't imagine how much alone I've been all my life.
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I don't think she's had much of a life.""Well, a life is a life.""What does that mean?""One never knows. I daresay most lives are rotten. It's only when one's young one expects otherwise.
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What larks we had," said James. "When?""When we were young."I could not recall any larks I had had with James. I poured out the wine and we sat in silence.
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Yes of course I was in love with my own youth. Aunt Estelle? Not really. Who is one's first love?
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