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“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as...”
“I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.”
“Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech.”
“When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.”
“Thoughts are divine.”
“Where the mind goes the man follows.”
“For a moment he wondered, again, if he should just give it all up. Perhaps he should go back to Italy, back to his hiding place. What made him think that he could rejoin the world of daylight?But h...”
“He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.”
“Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.”
“...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.”
“So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.”
“In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way ...”
“Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.”
“Probably nothing, but it was one of those thoughts like toothpaste: Once its out, you cant squeeze it back in.”
“Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you dont know how you got from one to the next.”
“And what do I think about? What thoughts do I have! - What thoughts! a whole host, multitude, and world of thoughts, I keep devising new ones and reworking old ones, some of the old ones are conclu...”
“The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it's a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken...”
“We reflect the color of our thoughts”
“I have layer upon layer of thoughts in my head and the bottom one has nothing to grip on to.”
“There is not, perhaps, a more painful exercise of the mind than that of treading, with weary and impatient pace, the entire round of thought, and arriving at the same conclusion for ever; then sett...”
