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“I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.”
― Albert Hofmann

tags: human-nature, nature, seeing

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“the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

tags: human-nature, humor, humour, jokes

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“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

tags: edward-hyde

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“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: human-nature, people, truth

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“They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: human-nature, humanity, war

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