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the realization that knowledge led either to wholesale illusion or to irrational depression,
he could bid farewell to the illusions that led to such terrible depressions.
It was a mysterious sensation but one that was born of simplicity rather than complexity: everything about him regained its original significance in the most natural way, the window became a window you could look out of again, the fire became a fire which gave out heat, and the drawing room ceased to be a refuge from ‘all-consuming devastation’ in much the same way as the outside world was no longer the scene of ‘insufferable torture’.
