"I was hungry, seeing myself starving for want of something I could not define.
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It is the folly of the young, part of their particular curse, to be so unaware, to be blind as well as hungry.
But in the end I knew precisely what I had been after all along.
I lost time trying to slake this unquenchable thirst, trying to satisfy an endlessly burning hunger.
I sought it constantly, sought it at every turn, searched every face I met for hints of it, looked everywhere I could conceive. "I was hungry, seeing myself starving for want of something I could not define