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Lots of confusion.
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Inside... a strange atmosphere.
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It was really weird.
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The paintings...
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They... they seemed to be floating.
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I followed a group of tourists
into a room and...
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I entered the painting.
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It was as if
I was suddenly immersed in it.
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I mean,
I was looking at it, when...
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- I know it sounds crazy. - Let's
try never to use words like crazy.
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"The symptoms include a cold sweat,
nausea, anxiety, hallucinations,
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severe depression
and personality changes."
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Yes.
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In 1817, the French writer Stendhal
was in Florence.
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He was admiring the works of art
in the church of Santa Croce...
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when he was overcome
by a powerful emotion.
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It had happened to others
before him,
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but he was the first to write
about the phenomenon in his diary.
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What happened to you in the Uffizi
is known as Stendhal Syndrome.
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"My feeling is so profound
that it borders on pity..."
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"All this speaks clearly to my
soul. If only I could forget it."
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There was a certain happiness in
the powerful feeling of Stendhal's.
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Yet, in spite of that...
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the only thing he wanted to do
was forget it.