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"The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur."
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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."
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"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."
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"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."
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"For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!"
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"Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter."
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"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?"
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"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."
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"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is."
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"Just because they annoy you doesn't mean they're wrong!"
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"Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."
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"Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance."
Behavior
"If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details."
Accountability
"When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up."
Awareness
"We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it."
Memory
"Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure."
Relationship
"He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself."
Travel
"A pier is a disappointed bridge, yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel."
Imagination
"He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down."
Art
"What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves - the music of our being - which is transformed by some into real music. Which, over the decades, if it is string and true and pure enough to drown out the noise of time, is transformed into the whisper of history."
Art
"Life always refused simplicity."
Life
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