"...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle - solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness."

Prejudice, Memory, Subtlety, Perception

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"...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle - solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness."

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