Marcel Proust quote: Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; ...

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

~ Marcel Proust ~

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