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21 " He thought about the future and it was a vibrating darkness. He felt fear. "
― Iris Murdoch , Henry and Cato
22 " But I've had such a rotten life. People like me are a problem. "
23 " Terrible sadness, dread, an agonizing desire for happiness swelled in his heart. "
24 " Everyone says how wonderful it is to be young. I've never seen it. "
25 " Henry's joy left him abruptly and he began anxiously to think about himself. "
26 " The new world, he thought, the new life, and how sad it is. I suppose I should be congratulating myself, it may even be that later I shall look back on this as heaven. "
27 " And so my life has become tiny and mean and incomplete and I must begin it again without comfort and without magic. "
28 " He had always thought of himself as a muddler, a sufferer, a victim. "
29 " You don't understand what it's like when things are terrible in your mind. "
30 " You don't know what it's like to be me, you don't know what it's like to be all tattered and destroyed inside. "
31 " And she looked at her life and seemed to understand it and to grieve over it as if it were already over. "
32 " That love all belonged to the elapsed moment. "
33 " One can't whistle up happiness. It's a gift of nature and I haven't got it. "
34 " I'm not a lucky person who makes radiant decisions which are obviously right. "
35 " Oh how stupid I am, he said to himself, using words which he had used ever so often since he was a child. At that moment it seemed to him that his life had consisted of one blunder after another, and now aged thirty-one he was well on into the stupidest of all. "
36 " She lived in private with her own horror. "
37 " He wished he was not always young again in his dreams, it made waking up so sad. "