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On the contrary, may God see 'where I am ... and have mercy and heal me' (Psalm 6:2)." For the more he withdrew into himself and gathered his self from the dispersion and distraction of the world, the more he "became a question to himself" [quaestio mihi factus sum]. Hence, it is by no means a simple withdrawal into himself that Augustine opposes to the loss of self in dispersion and distraction, but rather a turning about of the question itself and the discovery that this self is even more impenetrable than the "hidden works of nature."