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| 647751c | To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. | intellectualism reactions seeing understanding | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| fec0250 | I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react. | heart impressions landry pearl-in-the-mist reactions v-c-andrews wisdom | V.C. Andrews | |
| ec834ed | Whimsy is the answer to tears. | reactions sadness tears | Rachel Kushner |