Sublime

And guess what? Just as the movie isn’t reality, neither are our thoughts.

The ideas that you think about the most are the ones that automatically and irrationally rise in your mental list of priorities.

vague idée du passé ;

The point is that it’s not one thought that throws us into a tizzy: It’s the pattern of continually experiencing that thought that compounds its effect and makes it seem valid.

things of that sort. They're not actually alive in us, but they're rooted there all the same, and we can't rid ourselves of them. I've only to pick up a newspaper, and when I read it I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. I should think there must be ghosts all over the country—as countless as grains

"... There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”