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'Meanwhile, as I stand looking from the train window, I feel strangely, persuasively, that because of my great happiness I am become of this speed, this missile hurled at the city. I am numbed to tolerance and acquisence. My dear sir, I could say, why do you fidget, taking down your suitcase and pressing into it the cap that you have worn all night? Nothing we can do will avail. Over us all broods a splendid unanimity. We are enlarged and solemnised and brushed into uniformity as with the grey wing of some enourmous goose because we have only one desire - to arrive at the station. I do not want the train to stop with a thud. I do not want the connection which has bound us together sitting opposite each other all night long to be broken. I do not want to feel that hate and rivalry have resumed their sway; and different desires. Our community in the rushing train, sitting together with only one wish to arrive at Easton, was very welcome. But behold! It is over. We have attained our desire. We have drawn up at the platform. Hurry and confusion and the wish to be first through the gate into the lift assert themselves. But I do not wish to be first through the gate, to assume the burden of individual life. I, who have been since Monday, when she accepted me, charged in every nerve with a sense of identidy, who could not see a toothbrush in a glass without saying "My toothbrush", now wish to unclasp my hands and let fall my possessions, and merely stand here in the street, taking no part, watch the omnibuses, without desire; without envy; with what would be boundless curiosity about human destiny if there were any longer an edge to my mind. But it has none. I have arrived; am accepted. I ask nothing.'
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'The steam from the tea-urn rose in the middle of the lawn. There were banks of blue flowers. Then suddenly descended upon me the obscure, the mystic sense of adoration, of completeness that triumphed over chaos. Nobody saw my poised and intent figure as I stood at the open door. Nobody guessed the need I had to offer my being to one god; and perish, and disappear.'
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'I do not want to be admired. I do not want people, when I come in, to look up with admiration. I want to give, to be given and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.'
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'There was a star riding through the clouds one night, and I said to the star, "Consume me".'