More than that, a thing which we saw at a certain time in our lives, a book which we read, does not remain forever a part solely of what there was around us; it remains just as faithfully part of what we then were, and can be re-experienced, re-thought, only by the sensibility, the thought processes, the person that we then were; if in the library I take down François le Champi, a child immediately rises up within me and takes my place, the only one who has the right to read the title François le Champi and who reads it as he read it then, with the same impression of the weather outside in the
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