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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

"Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I'llunderstand myself right into the nearest mental asylum."

"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."

"How, when and what you perceive - defines your life!"

"Mechanics of Mind: Remember the nature of the mind - Mind is never where you are, it is always somewhere else!"
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"One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left."

"If I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur."

"It's very silly, she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it."

"We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie."

"You will think you take generous views of her; but you will never begin to know through what a strange sea of feeling she passed before she accepted you. As she stood there in front of you the other day, she plunged into it. She said 'Why not?' to something which, a few hours earlier, had been inconceivable. She turned about on a thousand gathered prejudices and traditions as on a pivot, and looked where she had never looked hitherto."

"I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and wrong."

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."
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