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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: Looking at Dona Rita, her head leaning on her hand, with her dark
lashes lowered on the slightly flushed cheek, I felt no longer
alone in my youth. That woman of whom I had heard these things I
have set down with all the exactness of unfailing memory, that
woman was revealed to me young, younger than anybody I had ever
seen, as young as myself (and my sensation of my youth was then
very acute); revealed with something peculiarly intimate in the
conviction, as if she were young exactly in the same way in which I
felt myself young; and that therefore no misunderstanding between
us was possible and there could be nothing more for us to know
about each other. Of course this sensation was momentary, but it
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