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“To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.”
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- Source:
- p. 30
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ca36b7209eb7fef55ef092d36dd2fd66e0ba42828f7991103dabdba8cdf5b3bd
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