I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worke…

V. S. Naipaul
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India, p.14, Pan Macmillan
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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