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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: Taminah's heart, where lay useless and barren the seeds of all
love and of all hate, the possibilities of all passions and of
all sacrifices, forgot its joys and its sufferings when deprived
of the help of the senses. Her half-formed, savage mind, the
slave of her body--as her body was the slave of another's
will--forgot the faint and vague image of the ideal that had
found its beginning in the physical promptings of her savage
nature. She dropped back into the torpor of her former life and
found consolation--even a certain kind of happiness--in the
thought that now Nina and Dain were separated, probably for ever.
He would forget. This thought soothed the last pangs of dying
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