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“The representation of the world as the world itself is the work of men; they describe it from a point of view that is their own and that they confound with the absolute truth.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without...” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History

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