I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived according to the head, not the heart. I consider and analyze my personal passions and actions with a strict curiosity, but without sympathy. There are two people within me: one who lives in the full sense of the word, and the other who reasons and judges him.Mikhail Lermontov
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In the quote from her book "The Hemingway Women," Mary Hemingway reveals that she is a woman who lives with two people within her: one that experiences life and another that reasons and judges her. The one who reasons and judges doesn’t always see the world as it truly is. It will often make excuses or put a positive spin on things in an effort to make everything seem all right. The other, feeling, person takes a more realistic view of things. This person isn’t afraid to confront the world, revealing what needs to be changed and what needs to be accepted.
Source: A Hero Of Our Time
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