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“All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.”

Needs Objects Perception Sight Distance Noses Papa Spectacles

Book:Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].

Source: Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].

“Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.”

Process Born Freedom Perception Distance Arise Thought Process

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination.”

Kind Character Facts Voice Imagination Common Fiction Talking Greater Perception Claims Distance Narrative Distribution Non Fiction

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination. L Doing figurative work or taking pictures, and looking at how light actually reflects and refracts on bodies, or how your perception of something changes based on distance. But I think the getting of the ideas, and having that space to just have the ideas, is otherworldly, and requires a clear mind.”

Thinking Mind Art Perception Distance Things Change Taking Pictures

Author:Chitra Ganesh

“I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.”

Way Feels Years Kind Different Culture Walks Path Perception Distance Different Kinds Mainstream Different Paths Mainstream Society

Author:Ian MacKaye

“Distance lends enchantment to the view.”

Wisdom Views Wise Perspective Mountain Perception Distance Borrowing Robes Enchantment Hue Azure Hallowed Ground

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.”

Mind Stills Soul Poor Vision Objects Changed Perception Distance Spread Obscure Alas Vastness Unattainable Languish

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)

“During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.”

“The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.”

Giving Trying Fighting Names Individual Voice Behinds Heard Identity Wall Perception Tradition Distance Tension Mask Margins Always Trying Reluctant

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols)... The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies.”

Mind Reality Eye Lying Artist Magic Objects Perception Distance Strive Painter Symbols Strife Clue

Author:Colin Blakemore

“Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.”

Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury