One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
Man is what he reads.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
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