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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: of this than to imagine in the man qualities which would be worthy
of her. Easier and less degrading. Because folly may be generous
- could be nothing else but generosity in her; whereas to imagine
her subjugated by something common was intolerable.
Because of the force of the physical impression he had received
from her personality (and such impressions are the real origins of
the deepest movements of our soul) this conception of her was even
inconceivable. But no Prince Charming has ever lived out of a
fairy tale. He doesn't walk the worlds of Fashion and Finance -
and with a stumbling gait at that. Generosity. Yes. It was her
generosity. But this generosity was altogether regal in its
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