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“And [a blind man] has told me that he thought few seeing people could enjoy the...”
– William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“Whatever the reason may be, the sounds, smells, and images of the world we...”
– Orhan Pamuk, The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
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“The poet, I said, is either nature or he will seek it.”
– Schiller, “On Naive and Sentimental Poetry” (1795)
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“But life is not all eloquence and adulation: life is wiping the baby’s...”
– William Gass, “Emerson and the Essay”
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“Our systems, it has been said, are the expression of our character, or the...”
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal (May 14, 1852)
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“Oh I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and...”
– Dylan Thomas, November or December 1936 From The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas (via liquidnight)
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“I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that...”
– Jasper Johns (via mythologyofblue)
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Peter Broderick, “Everything I Know”...
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“The meaning of books lies before them and not behind: it is in us. A book is not...”
– Richard Howard, “A Consideration of the Writings of Emily Dickinson”
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“All that is personal soon rots; it must be packed in ice or salt.”
– W.B. Yeats
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“Most of them [i.e., metaphysicians] have been invalids. I am one, can’t...”
– William James, as quoted in Wallace Stevens’ The Necessary Angel
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No. 83
What does it mean to remember the unsaid more clearly than the said? Unless we stand in relief against the uncommitted act, we are hardly here at all.
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