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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: to be swayed here and there by the capricious tempests of passion
and desire; a look that enwraps the whole body, and that
penetrates into the innermost recesses of the being, bringing
terrible defeat in the delirious uplifting of accomplished
conquest. It has the same meaning for the man of the forests and
the sea as for the man threading the paths of the more dangerous
wilderness of houses and streets. Men that had felt in their
breasts the awful exultation such a look awakens become mere
things of to-day--which is paradise; forget yesterday--which was
suffering; care not for to-morrow--which may be perdition. They
wish to live under that look for ever. It is the look of woman's
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