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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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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, famed for her series of novels that combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines usually involving ethical or sexual themes. Her life-story was filmed in 2001 as Iris.

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A childhood hatred, like a childhood love, can last a lifetime.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable.

And she did seem then to go to sleep instantly: the quick flight into oblivion of the chronically unhappy person. - Iris Murdoch

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