At first this gives the impression that the psychical intensity of the particular ideas was not taken into consideration at all in their selection for the dream, but only the varying nature and degree of their determination.
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In general, I find that things that have happened to me out of doors have made a deeper impression than things that have happened indoors.
Queer, the affection you can feel for a stranger! It was as though his spirit and mine had momentarily succeeded in bridging the gulf of language and tradition and meeting in utter intimacy. I hoped he liked me as well as I liked him. But I also knew that to retain my first impression of him I must not see him again; and needless to say I never did see him again.
affection / impression / intimacy / spirit
First impressions are always unreliable.
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.