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"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
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"Even if everybody is looking at the same light bulb, the unique composition of an individual will dictate how they interpret and see things. Some people will only see things with their left eye (mind/moon), while others will use only their right (heart/sun). Some people are completely void of light and repel it immediately. For instance, a beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different than the insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature - human or not human."

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."

"For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!"

"Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter."

"You don't need to look at the beauty to feel the love."

"That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak."

"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"

"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."
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"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."

"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."

"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."

"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."

"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."

"The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent."
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