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Along the quais the bookstalls seemed to become almost festive, awaiting the weather which will allow the passerby to leaf idly through the dog-eared books, and which would inform the tourist with a passionate fesire to carry off to the United States, or Denmark, more coloref prints than he could afford, or, when he got home, know what to do with.

But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.