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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 Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say."

"Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!"

"When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you."

"When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault."

"Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to others must not be how it should mean to you! Sometimes in life, things must have a different meaning to you, but positively; then you may be able to understand people and the mission, and accomplish the vision, with a good sense humor, seriousness and understanding, insight and wit, tenacity and distinctiveness, to the very end of your true strength!"

"Self-knowledge is the greatest kind of knowledge."

"I will meet you in that gap where consciousness meets unconsciousness."

"When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice."
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"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."

"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."

"It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was."

"The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive."

"Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down 'Desolation Row.' I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it."
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