Something will appear

From 1912 edition of David Copperfield

From Killing Commendatore, by Haruki Murakami, in the final pages:

I have no need, though, to challenge my life in such a troublesome (or, at the least, unnatural) way.  That is because I am endowed with the capacity to believe. I believe in all honesty that something will appear to guide me through the darkest and narrowest tunnel, or across the most desolate plain. That's what I learned from the strange events I experienced while living in that mountaintop house on the outskirts of Odawara.

He reflects on the destroyed painting and his ability to call up the images "with perfect clarity."

They look so tangible, so real, I feel as though I could reach out and touch them.  Contemplating them affords me perfect tranquility, as though I were watching raindrops on the surface of a broad reservoir.  That soundless rain will fall forever in my heart.

I will probably live the rest of my life in their [the figures in the painting] company. My little daughter Muro is their gift to me.  A form of grace.  I am convinced of this.

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Coincidentally, I just read, via Rob Walker's newsletter, about Wilkins Micawber, a clerk in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield. He is traditionally identified with the optimistic belief that "something will turn up."