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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: the invincible wisdom of silence; he was protected by an
indestructible faith that would last forever, that would withstand
unshaken all the assaults--the loud execrations of apostates, and the
secret weariness of its confessors! He was in league with a universe
of untold advantages. He represented the moral strength of a beautiful
reticence that could vanquish all the deplorable crudities of
life--fear, disaster, sin--even death itself. It seemed to him he was
on the point of sweeping triumphantly away all the illusory
mysteries of existence. It was simplicity itself.
"I hope you see now the folly--the utter folly of wickedness," he
began in a dull, solemn manner. "You must respect the conditions of
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