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Perception Quotes
"Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don't understand what's happening. They see something they don't like and it upsets them-because they don't have the full story, aren't personally facing the problem, and don't know how much worse the alternative could be."
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"You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip."
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"Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more."
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"Everything's uglier up close.Not you."
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"Not until you change your lens, true beauty shall always look ugly to you!"
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"I have met the devil - he is not!"
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"The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth."
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"What you expect, it will happen."
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"People don't believe what is true but believes what they hear regularly."
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"There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face."
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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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"Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form."
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"Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe."
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"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."
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"The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue."
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"She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nodded and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of a story is always an absence, and he wanted her to live among presences."
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"Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture."
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"Here too it's masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show, I'd gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though."
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"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."
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"I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty."
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"The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish."
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"The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held."
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"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."
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"That's right," said Door. Her cheek lightly grazed and her dirty reddish hair was tangled; tangled but not matted. And her eyes...Richard realized that he could not tell what color her eyes were. They were not blue, or green, or brown, or gray; they reminded him of fire opals: there were burning greens and blues, and even reds and yellows that vanished and glinted as she moved."
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"Some call their mistake a discovery;to others, their mistake is a misfortune and to most people a mistake is a deviation from the acceptable. A mistake is a mistake depending on what we think it is."
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"The deaf cannot hear wind, but can feel its touch. The blind cannot see the sun, but can feel its warmth."
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"A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion."
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"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."
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"The world is not outside of you. The world is inside you."
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"Hate contains truth. beauty is a facade."
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"When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it."
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"It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble."
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"It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world."
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"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."
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"Slowly gently night creeps up on you, more gentle than light, it helps you realize how much the light hinders you. In the darkness your senses learn when they should quit " in the embrace of the dark everything becomes what it really is. People fear the dark but unlike the light it does not lie to you. In the dark you can go where you long to be."
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"The same tongue that tastes a cube of sugar when it is placed in a small cup of water and appreciates it is the same tongue that tells the same cube of sugar how tasteless it is when it is placed in a large volume of water."
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"It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it."
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"Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way."
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"Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless."
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"Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart."
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"When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life.For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality.The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. ['Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh']"
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"The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that."
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"The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the gray with a different-textured gray - one with a touch of gold or green or red. I was impressed with the variety of grays that existed. Human beings were so strange. All you had to do was sit still for ten minutes, and you could see this amazing variety of grays."
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"Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your friend. If you immediately see a full vivid painting and an empty picture, and see them for what they are, slavery is your friend."
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"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."
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"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos."
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"Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white."
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"What you see and what you listen to will determine how high you will go."
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"The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life."
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