Quotes About Perspective

They're the ones inside a soap bubble. Not me.

You don't understand at all. It doesn't matter what's true and what's a fairy tale. That's not what matters. The dividing lines aren't as straight and simple as you think. - Raka

conveying two very different senses, as when table could refer either to a piece of furniture or to a numerical chart)

I think there is writing genius as well—which consists primarily, I think, of the ability to place oneself in the shoes of one's audience; to assume only what they assume; to anticipate what they anticipate; to explain what they need explained; to think what they must be thinking; to feel what they must be feeling.

Oh God, get over it.

No soy pesimista. Soy un optimista bien informado.

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

Al fin y al cabo, la Historia, como viene a decir el autor del manuscrito carmesí, no es más que una larga carrera de relevos: sabemos de dónde viene y por dónde transcurre, pero, en último término, no adónde se dirige, ni cuándo concluirá.

En exilio vivimos de aquel reino, inmediato y distante, donde todo es claridad

El ojo que ves no es ojo porque tú lo veas, es ojo porque te ve.

Life is long and art a toy

The eye you see is not an eye because you see it; it is an eye because it sees you.

Dicen que el hombre no es hombre mientras no oye su nombre de labios de una mujer.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

Only Judith's presence expanded his capacity for seeing, opened his eyes to things he wouldn't have noticed without her.

En casa uno facilmente puede sentirse encerrado, agobiado por la falta de horizonte, por la excesiva familiaridad de las cosas. En el cafe se es a la vez sedentario y transeunte, y si uno tiene la suerte de ocupar una mesa junto al ventanal, la situacion es admirable, perfecta: uno es la estampa involuntaria del desconocido que mira la calle tras los cristales del cafe, y esa figura, ese anonimato, le concede una vision alejada y un poco novelesca de si mismo.

Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters.

You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.