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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Rose, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.656, Library of America
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.