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For a long time he stood at the window looking at the shining rails. They had always fascinated him. Squinting a little he saw them stretch away to infinity, carrying him off to his rediscovered youth.

— Gabrielle Roy The Tin Flute (1945)

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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

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Rose-Anna was tugging at the edge of her apron with a tired, futile gesture she had never made in the past – the grandmother’s gesture.

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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

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Where could you find a light to guide the world?

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Because you’d be running after your own unhappiness.

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