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“They hoped that by keeping their spirits up, by keeping up appearances, they might compel destiny to see reason, force its hand, produce a miracle…Only a blind man would have carried on walking through their dark Utopia, waiting for a day that had already dawned on a new era; an era in which they were to play no part.”

“Poverty, I decided, had nothing to do with fate; it was simply a state of mind. We accept the world as we see it; we believe it to be immutable. But if we look away, even for a moment, another path appears, bright as a new penny, and so mysterious that we begin to dream…”

“Even now, I wonder if the world is nothing but appearances.”