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“After spending two hours with a book, and finding it more pleasurable than two years of real life, I'd remember again that life had no mean-ing, and sink back into despair.”

“For as long as I could remember, I had - perhaps without knowing, or perhaps not daring to breathe the thought - been searching for someone. That was why I had been avoiding all others. If only for a moment, the painting had convinced me that I might find her, and find her soon. It had sparked in me a hope that would never sink into despair.”