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— Marcel Proust"But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand."
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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
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