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"Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong."
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."

"The more you look, the less you see."

"Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality."

"But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing."

"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide."

"An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view.They have to unify all views. It's a way for ant to understand elephant.In order to understand true realities, men need to do mental blending."

"It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements."

"If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them."

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light."
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"There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding."

"It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top."

"Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?''What?''A sport!''And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy."

"Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham."

"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."

"When the sun shines you cannot see the moon," he said. "But when the sun is gone ah,when the sun is gone."

"I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and that anyone can read what is passing in my mind."

"Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off because they were not his own eyebrows, but false ones. As she woke again, her first impression was that which often follows dreams, a belief that the dream in question had solved everything. 'Of course,' she thought, 'of course!' His eyebrows were false and that solved the whole thing. He was the criminal."
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