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La mémoire est, par essence, un fait biologique ; par accident, un fait psychologique.
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The quote presents memory first as something rooted in the living body, calling that its essential nature. It treats its psychological aspect as secondary or incidental: memory is experienced through the mind, but that is not what most fundamentally defines it. The contrast shifts attention from personal experience to the biological basis underlying it.
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- Les Maladies de la mémoire (1881), p. 1
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