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Every spirit makes its house; but afterwards the house confines the spirit.

—RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “FATE”

There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself; it is the mystical.

—LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS

Light that makes some things seen, makes some things invisible.

—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, THE GARDEN OF CYRUS; OR, THE QUINCUNX

What is worse, knowledge is made by oblivion.

—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA

Thought kills me that I am not thought.

—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNET 44

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

—HENRY DAVID THOREAU, A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS