"Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them."

Cognition, Learning, Difficulty, Struggle, Mind

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"Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them."

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"The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."

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