I underwent a process of rejuvenation, inaugurated by Ottoline Morrell and continued by the War. It may seem curious that the War should rejuvenate anybody, but in fact it shook me out of my prejudices and made me think afresh on a number of fundamental questions.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 1:Tje First War, 1968]
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