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“Why was he staying and accepting it all, all these entanglements and confused emotions? These were experiences, emotions, and states of mind for the sedentary, the lawful, for people in heated rooms. Had he not the right…to extricate himself from these delicate complications and to laugh at them…he was a fool to look for a kind of home here and to be paying for it with so much suffering”