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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.