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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: each other, but gazing at the vast expanse of the sea. Almayer's
words had dried Nina's tears, and her look grew hard as she
stared before her into the limitless sheet of blue that shone
limpid, unwaving, and steady like heaven itself. He looked at it
also, but his features had lost all expression, and life in his
eyes seemed to have gone out. The face was a blank, without a
sign of emotion, feeling, reason, or even knowledge of itself.
All passion, regret, grief, hope, or anger--all were gone, erased
by the hand of fate, as if after this last stroke everything was
over and there was no need for any record.
Those few who saw Almayer during the short period of his
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