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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: But far stranger is the resident, man, a creature compact of
wonders that, after centuries of custom, is still wonderful
to himself. He inhabits a body which he is continually
outliving, discarding and renewing. Food and sleep, by an
unknown alchemy, restore his spirits and the freshness of his
countenance. Hair grows on him like grass; his eyes, his
brain, his sinews, thirst for action; he joys to see and
touch and hear, to partake the sun and wind, to sit down and
intently ponder on his astonishing attributes and situation,
to rise up and run, to perform the strange and revolting
round of physical functions. The sight of a flower, the note
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