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"Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception."
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"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."
"The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'."
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
"You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you."
"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."
"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."
"Only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves."
"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."
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"The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is."
"I can't destroy things so beautiful.""Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something."
"How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts."
"The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible."
"You're not actually falling for him, are you?" he asks her one day, on one of the rare occasions he can get her alone."I'll pretend you didn't just ask that," she tells him in disgust. But Connor has reasons to wonder."On that first night here, he offered you his blanket, and you accepted it," he points out."Only because I knew it would make him cold.""And when he offers you his food, you take it.""Because it means he goes hungry."It's coolly logical. Connor finds it amazing that she can put her emotions aside and be as calculating as Roland, beating him at his own game. Another reason for Connor to admire her."
"Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world. Both Nick and Mikey just stared at her."What do you mean end? asked Mikey."End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet ."
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