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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: Everybody at the after end of the ship was sleeping profoundly.
I came out again on the quarter-deck, agreeably at ease in my sleeping
suit on that warm breathless night, barefooted, a glowing cigar
in my teeth, and, going forward, I was met by the profound silence of
the fore end of the ship. Only as I passed the door of the forecastle,
I heard a deep, quiet, trustful sigh of some sleeper inside.
And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared
with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life
presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary
moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal
and by the singleness of its purpose.
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