She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek. β¨ Ayn Rand (2011). Ayn Rand Novel Collection, p.2010, Penguin
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