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We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

Henry David Thoreau
Ideas, Experience, Observation
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.203, Simon and Schuster
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.