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Perception Quotes
"Reality and fantasy are not two separate spheres but one whole. They are like a world's atmosphere-reality behaving as a low front, fantasy a high front. Each remains somewhat distinguishable and yet they swirl and join, affecting and manipulating the other. One cannot perceive where reality ends and fantasy begins, but life would grow stagnant and die without the influence of both."
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"What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??What are the differences?"
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"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."
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"Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what's most important."
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"Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable, some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant."
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"Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes."
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"The world we create in our minds shapes the ultimate reality where we live."
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"Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything."
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"The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him."
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"This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around."
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"What you expect, it will find the way to appear."
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"Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
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"The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask."
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"Beneath the handsome exterior beats a heart of darkness."
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"We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself."
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"Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops.Mind can't see event of future before it happens."
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
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"Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person's attempt to appear in control."
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"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
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"Your ears hear much, but your heart hears more. Your eyes see much, but your mind sees more. Your toungue says much, but your soul says more. Your feet travel much, but your imagination travels more. Your hands do much, but your mind does more."
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"What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!"
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"We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements."
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"We see the world as we are."
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"Your perspectives change your realities."
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"Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another."
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"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
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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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"People see what they expect to see."
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"The gods are blind and men see only what they wish."
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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."
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"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."
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"He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?"
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"My ears hear colors and my eyes see sounds."
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"Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time."
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"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."
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"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary."
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"A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens."
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"A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out."
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"Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero."
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"Because a spoon is made of gold does not change the soup's taste."
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"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."
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"The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it."
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"The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless."
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"Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare."
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"See not the face..but only the eyes, of the poker face."
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"The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!"
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"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."
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"And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety."
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"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."
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