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We appear to go through life reacting directly to events and all else in the world. That appearance is an illusion. We react to our judgments and opinions – to our thoughts about things, not to things themselves.
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“The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
― The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set
― The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set
“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in that inexplicable darkness. Where there was no sound anywhere save only the wind. After a while he sat in the road. He took off his hat and placed it on the tarmac before him and he bowed his head and held his face in his hands and wept. He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
― The Eye of the World
― The Eye of the World
“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
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