To study it in all it's purity, philosophers make reality suffer almost the same transformations that fire or the mortar make bodies suffer; in these crystals or in these ashes nothing seems to subsist to be or act as we know. […] It would be very difficult for me to live in a world without books, but reality is not in them, since it wouldn’t entirely fit on them.
Memoirs of Hadrian
ANIMULA VAGULA BLANDULA
Marguerite Yourcenar
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