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"Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly."
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"Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless."
"A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time."
"I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to."
"Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me."
"The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind."
"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."
"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."
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"Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere."
"Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. To-night at least, I would be her guest-as I was her child; my mother would lodge me without money and without price."
"Do you like him much?'I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'Is he?'All boys are."
"Some have won a wild delight,By daring wilder sorrow;Could I gain thy love to-night,I'd hazard death to-morrow."
"He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips."
"Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight."
"A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward- that a way, however narrow and difficult, would in time open- predominated over other feelings: its influence hushed them so far, that at last I became sufficiently tranquil to be able to say my prayers and seek my couch. I had just extinguished my candle and lain down, when a deep, low, mighty tone swung through the night. At first I knew it not; but it was uttered twelve times, and at the twelfth colossal hum and trembling knell, I said: "I lie in the shadow of St. Paul's."
". . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . ."
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