"Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is."
"I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both."
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Source: The Historians' History of the World. Book by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423, 1903.
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