“What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island. And what does such a cast away do? Why he pokes around the neighborhood and he doesn't miss a trick. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
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![“How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.” quote by Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ec1/laurence-sterne-1405_air_how-many-thousands-of-lives-are-there-ev_334363.jpg)
![“The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity… Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?” quote by Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed9/laurence-sterne-1405_cast-away_the-proper-education-of-poor-children-is_461307.jpg)
