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Every published page in the house, and every book on the shelf — 393 volumes and 44,688 passages of it — and every result is a passage that opens where it was written.
3 passages from 1 volume
The House
Something that small should not be able to do this much damage
What they get instead is a decade or two of explaining themselves in borrowed language that does not fit — too sensitive, too dramatic, too much.
The House
You have seen it enough times to know it is real, and the manual has no name for it
It is context, and it should never be allowed to become an argument for stasis — a history explains why change is slow, not why it is unavailable.
The House
Something that small should not be able to do this much damage
What predicts the capacity for higher development is what he called psychic overexcitability: an innate, constitutionally based intensity of experience across sensory, psychomotor, intellectual, imaginative and emotional domains.