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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: most ruffianly lot of men, men you understand, men with wives and
children and sweethearts, who from the very moment they start on a
trip risk a bullet in the head at any moment, but who have a
perfect conviction that I will never fail them. That's my freedom.
I wonder what they would think if they knew of your existence."
"I don't exist," she said.
"That's easy to say. But I will go as if you didn't exist - yet
only because you do exist. You exist in me. I don't know where I
end and you begin. You have got into my heart and into my veins
and into my brain."
"Take this fancy out and trample it down in the dust," she said in
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