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But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
