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“It is necessary at this point to recount what actually occurred, as opposed to what was generally supposed to have occurred, on that terrible evening when Lucas killed a man.”

Story Iris Murdoch The Green Knight Omniscient Narration Authorial Viewpoint

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“. . . solitary sinister men with terrible secrets — of whom Clement now and forever after must be one.”

Secrets Solitary Iris Murdoch Sinister The Green Knight Irrevocable

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“I have always wanted to kill you, ever since the moment when I learnt of your existence.”

Hatred Murder Killing Motive Iris Murdoch The Green Knight Intent Homicidal

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“Of course she had read this work many times before, but there were certain parts to which she passionately returned: so cool, so elegant, so beautiful, so terrible. As she read tears began to stream down her face.”

Book Reading Emotional Admiration Iris Murdoch Crying The Green Knight Favorite Book Rereading Tearjerker

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“It was her birthday. She thought, I am always unhappy on this day.”

Unhappy Birthday Iris Murdoch Always The Green Knight

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“I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil.”

Enemy Devil Iris Murdoch Underestimated The Green Knight First Impression Buffoon

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“I just can't live an ordinary life, I can't pass the time. I can't organise myself, I don't have ordinary motives any more. I can't even manage my body, when I go to bed I don't know where to put my arms.”

Life Humor Depression Iris Murdoch The Green Knight Apathetic Unmotivated

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“So was she on the side of dragons and indifferent to the fate of princesses?”

Dragons Iris Murdoch Fairy Tales The Green Knight Tropes Princesses

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“The human mind is a weird place.”

Iris Murdoch Weird The Green Knight The Mind

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“At this point Bellamy suddenly remembered another dream which at the time had made him smile. He dreamt he was a little tiny frightened animal called 'Spingle-spangle'. Later he did not smile. The little doomed creature was an image of what he most feared, insanity.”

Dream Humor Fear Insanity Iris Murdoch Disturbing Symbolism The Green Knight

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“He said, 'Forgive me for being a liar and a fool and an utterly worthless man.' Louise replied, 'I love you.' He took her in his arms for a moment and they held each other with closed eyes.”

Embrace Dialogue Unconditional Love Apology Confession Iris Murdoch The Green Knight Declaration Of Love Tender

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“Nothing will bring me peace except revenge.”

Peace Revenge Iris Murdoch The Green Knight

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“We all love a glimpse of Lucas, it's a religious experience.”

Humor Dialogue Iris Murdoch The Green Knight

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“Suppose she never got into art school, suppose she was not a painter after all? Suppose the talents which others had persuaded her she possessed were to abandon her overnight, or turn out to have been unreal all the time? Suppose she had to take a typing course or live with a word processor? I would die, she thought, I would kill myself or make myself die of grief. Already there was one great deep grief in her life.”

Artist Grief Suicide Iris Murdoch The Green Knight Doubts Insecurities

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“He awoke the next morning to an instant consciousness of disaster.”

Disaster Realization Iris Murdoch The Green Knight

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“Lately Louise had decided to give up wearing make-up altogether, but had not yet acted upon the decision.”

Humor Resolution Iris Murdoch Inaction The Green Knight

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“For me, nothing can ever be well again.”

Iris Murdoch Ruined The Green Knight Irreparable

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“They had become, year by year, month by month, mysterious to her, her love for them an extended pain, a web or field of force, of which she felt at times the almost breaking tension.”

Love Pain Tension Iris Murdoch The Green Knight Strained

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“Louise thought, what will happen to them — perhaps just this is the beginning of some awful end.”

Iris Murdoch The Green Knight The Beginning Of The End

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“Lucas continued, speaking pensively in a dreamy tone, "The painters, you know, the painters, what they did for Christianity!”

Art Christianity Iris Murdoch The Green Knight

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“How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.”

Hurt Vulnerable Sensitive Iris Murdoch The Green Knight

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“Sorrow can sometimes induce sleep.”

Sleep Sorrow Iris Murdoch The Green Knight

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“Clement held her hand for a moment; knowing that after that moment the darkness would begin.”

Darkness Inevitable Iris Murdoch Holding Hands The Green Knight

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“The place was still there, present in the sunshine, instead of being hidden far away in darkness in the confines of some tragic opera.”

Darkness Opera Iris Murdoch The Green Knight

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“She thought, this is the end of happiness, darkness begins here.”

Happiness Darkness Iris Murdoch The Green Knight The End

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“He is crammed full of rage and hate and desire for revenge.”

Hate Revenge Rage Iris Murdoch The Green Knight

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“What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?”

Light Iris Murdoch Torment Withdrawal The Green Knight

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“Although he longed to see Louise, and to see Aleph, he increasingly lacked the will to go.”

Longing Apathy Iris Murdoch Inaction The Green Knight

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