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The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

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Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man ...more

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We haven't been too bad, have we?""No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big par...more