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I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
...how easy it would be to dream one's life out in some cleft in the world.
