Les Misérables vocabulary

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)

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I had always thought of our own individuality at a given moment in time as a polypus whose eye, an independent organism, although associated with it, winks at a scatter of dust without orders from the mind, still more, whose intestines are infected by an obscure parasite without the intelligence being aware of it,

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 7]