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Variety Of Experience

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Everything is made through images. They enter us through all the other senses, as through the eye. An echo (they say) is an image of the voice. All our affections are produced by images of touching. Our whole body is a mirror.

Joseph Joubert

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Francis Bacon

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Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked—who is good? Not that men are ignorant—what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.

Wallace Stevens

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Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another’s bread and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.

Dante Alighieri

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The wild vicissitudes of taste.

Samuel Johnson

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Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

Susan Sontag

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