❝It seems to me, that we all go through life naively believing that everybody’s minds work the same that as ours, in this way we are all building relationships with others that are based purely on imagination❞
-Paul Fierlinger, Still Life with Animated Dogs
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❝Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments…By closing the eyes and slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit everywhere, which still is built purely on illusory foundations. Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure… Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man. In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminated i the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at al what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us.❞
-Henry David Thoreau
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