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" A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. "
Michel de Montaigne
Looks
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" It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. "
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" There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. "
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" If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. "
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