He made no answer to my question, but he added: "I, too, am going back home today." Then, sadly, "It is much far-ther it is much more difficult..." I realised clearly that something extraordinary was happening. I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child; and yet it seemed tome that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from whichI could do nothing to restrain him. His look was very serious, like some one lost far away. - P126
Once again I felt myself frozen by the sense of something irreparable. And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring offresh water in the desert. - P127
"All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lightsin the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You, you alone, will have the stars as no one else has them" - P129
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