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1 " If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, " you would be so astounded that you'd fall over." " Really? But why?" asked Arthur. " It's just a tree." " No," Merlin said, " It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine. "
2 " As one tends to the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them in good order. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so, for it must be very lonely being dead. "
― Diane Setterfield , The Thirteenth Tale
3 " In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.-- "
― Samuel McChord Crothers
4 " A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name. "
― Charles de Lint , Dreams Underfoot (Newford, #1)
5 " You ask me what it feels like to have wings. I can only tell you the feeling with words. And words have neither feelings nor wings. Words are leaky vessels into which a cargo of meaning and emotion are placed, and when they leave you and reach the farther shore of another mind a considerable portion of that cargo has been lost at sea. Fallen overboard, gone to rot, consumed by vermin, decayed to a state unlike its original form. "
6 " Another day another life Passes by just like mine It's not complicated Another mind Another soul Another body to grow old It's not complicated "
― Ed Sheeran
7 " Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. "
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
8 " Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world. "
― Michael Bassey Johnson , Comfort
