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"But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."
"The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind."
"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."
"People see what they expect to see."
"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."
"He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much, but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
"I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed."
"Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully."
"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!"
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"What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get " the more specificity you harvest " the more precious becomes every ounce and spam. Your life and times don't drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. Rather the opposite, maybe. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret)."
"Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character."
"And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations."
"To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her--is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil...?"
"Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?"
"It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow."
"A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better."
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