Act Passed

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“Even the simple act that we call “going to visit a person of our acquaintance” is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)