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«One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.»
«There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.»
«The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws»
Author: Remy de Gourmont | About: Effort | Keywords: erect, impressions
«There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.»
«On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.»
«Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.»
«The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.»
«The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.»
«Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.»
«The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.»

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