There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

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Mark Twain is not known for his subtlety, so this quote comes across as more of a condemnation than an explanation. He doesn’t address the idea of the people who get the truth instantly, but it is clear that he believes that only a very few people get it fully at once. There are many who get parts of the truth, but they don’t get the whole picture. And then there are those who don’t ever get any of it at all.

Source: Journals Of Anais Nin Volume 3

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