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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 22 Aug 2011 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that’s greater than zero. Some things, like the background sound of a bird chirping as it passes your house in the evening, or a flower glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, have such an infinitesimally small effect that you can’t detect them. Some things, like triumph and heartbreak, and some images, like the image of yourself reflected in the eyes of a man you’ve just stabbed, attach themselves to the secret gallery and change your life forever.