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Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive Quotes: The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.
         

The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.


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