"You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world."

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He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

— Julian Barnes