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"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."
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"The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator."
"The true definition of innocence is unfiltered perception."
"I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished."
"Paranoia is just having the right information."
"But I don't care what you think, not about these things anyway. If you don't think they're real or important or you think that we'll all grow out of this nonsense, well, that's not really my business. I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you."
"You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do."
"She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums."
"When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter."
"What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]"
"What we think about others is what others think about US!"
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"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."
"Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man."
"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."
"All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms."
"Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography."
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