“When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson, book Galileo's Dream

Source: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 13, p. 284

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