Date: 1911
"The colloid minds are sticky, glutinous, and mussy."
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Date: 1911
"Sleep scatters you; sensations come storming along into the dreamer's mind, and he is a prey to each in turn."
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Date: 1911
"You are no longer the slave of those successive atoms into which sleep divides you."
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Date: 1911
"Sensations rain in on you as in a dream, but you suppress all but what are useful for your conscious purpose."
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Date: 1911
"A friend may almost literally pour out his soul into our waiting ears, or we may almost literally read it in his eyes."
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Date: 1914
"nd I know that just as the voice of Jesus was not heard, and is not heard, save here and there; just as the voice of Tolstoy is not heard, save here and there; and others great and small are lost in the great echoless desert of indifferentism, having produced little perceptible effect, so my voi...
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Date: 1914
"I think with all his purity Emerson had within him the turbid stream of passion and desire; for all his hard-cut granite features he knew the instincts of the weakling and the slave; and for all his sweetness, he had the tiger and the jackal in his soul."
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Date: 1918
"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1918
"Mr. Chesterton's brain swarms with ideas; I see no evidence that it thinks."
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Date: 1922
"When the two gases previously mentioned are mixed in the presence of a filament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected...
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