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"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears."
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"Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?"
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"Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort."
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"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."
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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 shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ['Trompe le pied.']"
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"Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?"
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"We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ['Waiting for the pieces to fall into place']"
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"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
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"I just miss - I miss being anonymous."
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"A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion."
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"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."
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"Nothing endures but change."
Change
"Bigotry is the sacred disease."
Prejudice
"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."
Literature
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
Happiness
"A man's character is his guardian divinity."
Character
"A man's character is his fate."
Character
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
People
"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
Soul
"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."
Character
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