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"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."
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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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"I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost."

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."

"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy."
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