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“Another journey had been sabotaged by arrival.”

“The room was ripe with the scents of former occupants: the despair of shoe salesman, the rut of newlyweds, the blood of suicides“

“Were his dreams ever crushed by their fulfillment? …That’s the difference between dreaming and doing. You do something, it passes, you can’t hold it, revise it, perfect it. It’s just gone.”