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‘I love it more than anywhere in the world. As if it were a person. More than a person.’
‘But you don’t know the world,’ I teased her.

‘What I see is nothing – I want what it hides –that is not nothing.’

As for my confused impressions they will never be written. There are blanks in my mind that cannot be filled up.

And the woman is a stranger. Her pleading expression annoys me. I have not bought her, she has bought me, or so she thinks....I have sold my soul or you have sold it, and after all is it such a bad bargain? The girl is thought to be beautiful, she is beautiful. And yet …

I woke next morning knowing that nothing would be the same. I would change and go on changing.