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[N]othing is worthwhile on this unhappy earth except the fulfilment of a man's desire.
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p. 4

 

Hilaire Belloc

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Paul here is unhappy because unhappiness is second nature to him but more particularly because he has not the faintest idea of how to bring about his heart's desire. And I am unhappy because nothing is happening. Four people in four corners, moping, like tramps in Beckett, and myself in the middle, wasting time, being wasted by time.

 

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In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

 

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Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother,
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