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is the total recollection which does not appear to be recollected, as if time stood still and became eternity.

They [Romantics] all seem to have experienced paramnesia, the sensation of déjà vu, the total recollection which does not appear to be recollected; they all aimed at least at the total exclusion of the past from the present by a perfect absorption in the present, as if time stood still and became eternity.

Rene Wellek

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