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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."
"The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind."
"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."
"People see what they expect to see."
"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."
"He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much, but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
"I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed."
"Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully."
"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!"
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"Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary."
"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
"The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view."
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit sense."
"I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both."
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