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The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity that's intoxicating

The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity that's intoxicating
later you realize you were only ever drunk on your own vision.

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later you realize you were only ever drunk on your own vision.
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