And once the novelist has put us in the state where, as in all purely internal states, every emotion is multiplied, where their book disturbs us like a dream more lucid and lingering than those we have while sleeping, that novelist can release in us the joys and misfortunes which we might normally need years to know, the most intense of which we might not otherwise even perceive because they happen so slowly. Our heart, in life, may change with the worst pain, yet we’d only know it by being inspired to imagine it, as the slowness of some major changes keeps us from recognizing their
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