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Quotes About Perspective

imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
~ Lewis Carroll
Alice: per quanto tempo è per sempre? - Bianconiglio: a volte, solo un secondo.
~ Lewis Carroll
Non credere mai d'essere diversa da quella che appari agli altri di esser o d'esser stata, o che tu possa essere, e l'essere non è altro che l'essere di quell'essere ch'è l'essere dell'essere, e non diversamente.»
~ Lewis Carroll
But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.
~ Lewis Carroll
But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.
~ Lewis Carroll
Cuando yo uso una palabra -insistió Humpty Dumpty con un tono de voz más bien desdeñoso- quiere decir lo que yo quiero que diga…, ni más ni menos.
~ Lewis Carroll
not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through
~ Lewis Carroll
Tu cara es idéntica a la de los demás…, ahí, un par de ojos… (señalando su lugar en el aire con el pulgar), la nariz, en el medio, la boca debajo. Siempre igual. En cambio, si tuvieras los dos ojos del mismo lado de la cara, por ejemplo…, o la boca en la frente…, eso sí que sería diferente.
~ Lewis Carroll
Me parece que podrían hacer algo mejor con el tiempo", dijo, "que gastarlo preguntando acertijos que no tienen respuesta". "Si conocieras al Tiempo tan bien como yo", dijo el Sombrerero, "no hablarías de gastarlo. ¡Es todo un caballero!
~ Lewis Carroll
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
~ Lewis Carroll
Cuánto dura la eternidad? -preguntó Alicia- -A veces, solo un segundo -respondió el conejo
~ Lewis Carroll
Why, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal.
~ Lewis Carroll
generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
~ Lewis Carroll
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. We're all mad here!
~ Lewis Carroll
So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?' Alice made a short calculation, and said 'Seven years and six months.' 'Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. 'You never said a word like it!' 'I though you meant How old ARE you?' Alice explained. 'If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty. Alice didn't want
~ Lewis Carroll
cats.' 'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. 'Would you like cats if you were me?' 'Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone: 'don't be angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, 'and she
~ Lewis Carroll
GörüneceÄŸin gibi ol,'...ya da daha bir sadeleÅŸtirirsek...'Kendinin baÅŸkalar?na görünebileceÄŸinden farkl? olmad???n?, önceden olan ya da olmuÅŸ olabilen halinin de, baÅŸkalar?na farkl? görünmüÅŸ olacak olan daha da önceki halinden farkl? olmad???n? asla zannetme.
~ Lewis Carroll
You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head— Do you think, at your age, it is right?" "In my youth," Father William replied to his son, "I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.
~ Lewis Carroll
All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, "You're travelling the wrong way," and shut up the window and went away.
~ Lewis Carroll
So I wasn't dreaming, after all," she said to herself, "unless—unless we're all part of the same dream. Only I do hope it's my dream, and not the Red King's! I don't like belonging to another person's dream," she went on in a rather complaining tone: "I've a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!
~ Lewis Carroll
What a curious feeling!" said Alice; "I must be shutting up like a telescope.
~ Lewis Carroll
I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.
~ Lewis Carroll
That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--' 'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!' '--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.' 'I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.
~ Lewis Carroll
As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high. 'Whoever lives there,' thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them this size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!' So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.
~ Lewis Carroll