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“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“Humans see what they want to see.” Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“We look up at the same stars, and see such different things.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!” Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
“Mostly you are what they think you are.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's...” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a...” David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.” William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Anything can be music, but it doesn't become music until someone wills it to be music, and the audience listening to it decides to perceive it as music.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

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