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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 eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."


"First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm."


"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."


"I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them."
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