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Perception Quotes
"Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it."
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"What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years."
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"She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for."
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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
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"Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."
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"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."
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"Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired."
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"Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues."
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"I guess the sky in real life isn't actually perfect. Maybe that's what makes it so perfect."
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"A day is a day. It's just a measurement of time. Whether it's a good day or a bad day is up to you. It's all a matter of perception."
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"I often see through things right to the apparition itself."
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"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
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"In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face."
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"We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been."
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"He'd fallen in the trap before of believing she had the cold soul of an ice queen, but moments like these, it seemed more like she'd been encased a long time ago and couldn't break free."
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"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
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"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure."
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"Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes."
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"A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom."
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"Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more."
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"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity."
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"Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!"
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"Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads them to it, and upon many just things but not the just itself, and all the things like that, we'll claim that they accept the seeming of everything but discern nothing of what they have opinions about."
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"Bravery is the dead man's virtue."
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"From the way his face lit with curiosity to the slight tilt of his jaw, even the lingering scent of brine and breeze gave him away."
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"But when you're in love, you're not in control of what you think or say or do. And there is nothing I love more than control, and nothing I love less than not having it. So you tell me -what is a person like me supposed to do with a feeling like that?"
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"Lena was going down the list of John's attributes in her mind, a list I was hoping wasn't too long. 'He could see and hear and smell things I couldn't.'Link inhaled deeply, then coughed. 'Dude, you really need a shower."
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"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."
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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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"Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl."
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"I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?"
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"What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?"
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"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."
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"You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else."
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"An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed."
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"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"
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"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."
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"To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind."
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"He who has foresight has more than two eyes."
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"Adam mused, "Incorruptus. I never thought anyone would use that word to describe Lynch. Ronan looked as pleased as a pit viper ever could."
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"The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel."
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"I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy."
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"Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."
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"On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes."
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"Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what's most important."
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"What you think is the heart might well be another organ."
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"There. My ears are all dead. Now you try."Three times I repeated the movements she'd made. Slowly, carefully, but nothing left me with the impression that my ears had died. The wine was rapidly circulating through my system."I do believe that my ears aren't dying properly, " I said, disappointed.She shook her head. "That's okay. If your ears don't need to die, there's nothing wrong with them not dying."
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