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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: danger and strife, the beginning of happiness, the fulfilling of
love, the completeness of life. It had set at last! The short
tropical twilight went out before she could draw the long breath
of relief; and now the sudden darkness seemed to be full of
menacing voices calling upon her to rush headlong into the
unknown; to be true to her own impulses, to give herself up to
the passion she had evoked and shared. He was waiting! In the
solitude of the secluded clearing, in the vast silence of the
forest he was waiting alone, a fugitive in fear of his life.
Indifferent to his danger he was waiting for her. It was for her
only that he had come; and now as the time approached when he
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