Yet the experience of itself is that for which it longed, for it wanted to know what it felt like to be so magnificent.

然而他渴望的是经验他自己，因为他想明白，做为这样庄严华丽的存在是什么样的感受。

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So he really longed for it.

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This kind of interaction was not only what he longed for, but he believed it would also appeal to other professionals (men in those days) who, like him, had emigrated from rural America to the big cities.

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They let me imagine how it felt to be longed for, and that was a knowledge sadly lacking in my real life.

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