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Autobiography and memoir1 quote
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may-light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. — John ConstableBiography1 quote
Consider, Sir, how insignificant this will appear a twelvemonth hence. — Samuel Johnson · 1763Dystopian fiction1 quote
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Epic poem1 quote
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton · 1667Philosophical literature1 quote
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851Political literature1 quote
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt. — Edmund Burke · 1770Psychological literature1 quote
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. — Daniel Kahneman · 2011Religious literature1 quote
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton · 1667