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“I found appearances more bewildering and tormenting now than at any previous point in my life. It was as if I had lost some special capacity to filter my own perceptions, one that I had only become aware of once it was no longer there, like a missing pane of glass in a window that allows the wind and rain to come rushing though unchecked.”

“ Perhaps it was that—the loss of belief—that constituted his yearning for the old life… he and his wife had built things that had flourished…expanded the sum of what they were and what they had; life had responded willingly to them abundantly, and this…had given him the confidence to break it all…with what now seemed to him to be an extraordinary casualness, because he thought there would be more.”