J. M. Coetzee quote: Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura ...

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.

~ J. M. Coetzee ~

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