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'No trace would remain of an operation which would have been, throughout a period of fifty years, the sole motivation and unique activity of its author.'

(Perec, Life: A User's Manual, 119)

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'He fell into a sort of neurasthenia, a strange lethargy from which nothing, it seemed, could arouse him. Those who had occasion to meet him at that time had the feeling he was in a state of weightlessness, in a kind of sensorial void, a condition of total indifference; indifferent to the weather, to the time of day, to the information which the external world continued to address to him but which he seemed ever less inclined to receive.'

(Perec, Life: A User's Manual, 234)