Quickest disappointment in the West.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

“Then they would make love, and lie quietly for a while, and return to their studies, as if their love and learning were one process.”

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”

Where you see yourself after 10 years