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"Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine."
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"My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept."
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