It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a ci…

V. S. Naipaul
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India, p.14, Pan Macmillan
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