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The book of memory quote – Paul Auster

"Cut off from everything that was familiar to him, unable to discover even a
single point of reference, he saw that his steps, by taking him nowhere,
were taking him nowhere but into himself. He was wandering inside himself,
and he was lost. Far from troubling him, this state of being lost became a
source of happiness, of exhilaration. He breathed it into his very bones. As if
on the brink of some previously hidden knowledge, he breathed it into his
very bones and said to himself, almost triumphantly: I am lost."

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