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“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

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“Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can be plausible options to make ourselves understood. So, if we can’t say it, we can show and depict it. Whereof we cannot speak we can paint! ("Happy days are back again")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: assert, depict, hands, happy-days, like, manipulate, options, paint, plausible, show, silent, skilfully, speak, thoughts, understood, use, wittgenstein

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“New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ( "New York at arm's length of desire" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: arm-s-length, completion, desire, dream, new-york, state-of-mind

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“When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life.
For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality.
The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. ("Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brain, chip, daily, decoding, decrypting, discontinue, innocent, instant, life, mental, mind, moment, pattern, perceptions, pick, pure, reality, safeguards, surrender, suspicion, thinking, time, tired, unguarded, weaken, willingly, world

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“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" )”
― Erik Pevernagie