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"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.

The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness and then the absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom. Millions live like this, without knowing it.

And then a person, a book, a song, takes place and it awakens them and saves them. Some never awaken."

Anaïs Nin