Quotes About Perception

Conosco un paese che ha provocato ben due guerre mondiali in un secolo e ha proposto una «soluzione finale», e nessuno lo ha mai definito maledetto. Conosco un paese insensibile alla disperazione umana, che continua a ridurre alla fame l'intero pianeta forte del suo strapotere finanziario, e nessuno lo definisce maledetto. Anzi, si presenta al mondo come il popolo benedetto dagli dèi, o meglio da Dio. Allora perché mai Haiti dovrebbe essere maledetta?

When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.

I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this "condition" affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.

I think the narcolepsy is adorable. Someday you'll be happy for these little lulls. Who the fuck wants a man to be awake all the time?

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow, that something kept her from ever fully bridging the gap between who she was and who all these other people, making their way through the very same day, were.

she immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village boys who had once been her friends.

the way the diamond caused people to reasses her--their palpable appreciation that Drew was loved by someone, was someone worth loving

Your problem is that you're Russian - you don't know how to be happy.

But unlike people with psychotic conditions like schizophrenia, they are not going insane at all. They are, if anything, suddenly overly aware of reality and existence and of the ways in which their own experience is a distortion of a "normal" sense of a real self. Depersonalization,

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

And the ones that can know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole. I have a good and I have an evil, I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing, You are the welcoming back from the ocean.

That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we don't change. Only the people around us change.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said.

Why are children so much smarter than adults?

Most people have never seen the inside of a womb—or, rather, everyone has seen it, but almost no one remembers it.

I'm just saying that there's a lot we can't know," he concluded, and looked at her again. "Actually what we can't know is infinite.

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?

Amy is so correct that a good personality can make a guy better-looking.

e, al contrario dei gatti, in natura i poeti non esistono.

Ero distratto... Scusa... Perché dici che io non ho più anima? Perché fingi di essere così profondo, e gli altri invece tutti merde?