"Ah", he replied solemnly, as if I had hit on a notion of importance. Then he lit a cigarette, and a coil of smoke spiralled upwards before his face. "If a man does not reach his limit," he pronounced, a flicker of enquiry surfacing into his eyes as if released from a great depth, "how can he discover the way to go beyond it?"
An Unexpected Light - Travels In Afghanistan by Jason Elliot, Picador, London, 1999 - page 72.
Sometimes I read passages such as this and it makes me want to give up writing forever. Luckily I only stop for a short while.
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