lost old work, personality dissolving it, set free. immortality soul l — Iain Pears, Dream Scipio

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She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.

Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

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