Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body…

Marcel Proust
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Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up. ✨ Marcel Proust (2003). In Search of Lost Time: Finding Time Again, ePenguin
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Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up. ✨ Marcel Proust (2003). In Search of Lost Time: Finding Time Again, ePenguin

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