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"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."

"Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before."
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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."


"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!"


"On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room."


"It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!"


"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."
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