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THE REAL MALAY
destiny and her relatives have chosen to unite her.
Thus some fool persuades her that in his worship
and passion she will find the World's Desire, and
it is only after perhaps a long and varied experience
that she realizes that, having started for a voyage
on the ocean, she finds herself seated at the bottom
of a dry well."
It is possible that thus she becomes acquainted
with truth.
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