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"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
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"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."
"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."
"It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to."
"Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible."
"You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else."
"We only listen to what we want to hear."
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour."
"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
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"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."
"Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together."
"Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system."
"What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture."
"The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined."
"All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!"
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