Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed fro… - Iris Murdoch

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Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection.