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"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."
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"Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?"
"Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort."
"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."
"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
"When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ['Trompe le pied.']"
"Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?"
"We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ['Waiting for the pieces to fall into place']"
"If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!"
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
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"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."
"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."
"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."
"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."
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