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"But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters."
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"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."

"We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception."

"We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements."

"Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what's most important."

"You cannot have a beautiful life if you always focus on ugliness in others."

"A true religious person should not think that "my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false. Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss. Likewise, no person should think "my perception of the reality is the only absolute reality, and all others' are false, because each human brain has its own unique way of perceiving the reality."

"The landscape looks different from every blade of grass."

"Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?"I graduated from Cambridge, Christopher said acidly. "Should I have brought my diploma?"

"Since non-verbal signals have five times the impact of verbal signals, paying attention to the image you are projecting is crucial to your first impressions."

"Reality is not what we see, reality is what we think we see."
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"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake."


"It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else."


"What is it with you today? says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are stillswollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face."Oh, you know, I say. "Sun shining. Birds chirping.She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an undergroundtunnel."


"Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be.""That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"..."You've been paying close attention, haven't you?""I like to observe people/""Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar."


"She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them."


"I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil."


"Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall."
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