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Her eyes ate me.

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy, and strangulation.

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ومثلما أن أطفال الآدميين يحدقون في هدوء وثبات بعيدا عن الثدي وهم يرضعون كأنما يحيون حياتين في آن معا - فبينما هم يمتكون الغذاء الجسدي ما يزالون روحيا يستطيبون ذكريات غير أرضية - كذلك كان يفعل صغار أولئك الحيتان، كانوا كأنما ينظرون نحونا إلى أعلى ولكنهم لا ينظروننا، كأننا عشبة من أعشاب الخليج في أنظارهم الوليدة الحديثة العهد بالنظر.

When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.

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It is strong proof of men knowing things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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