“This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.”

“The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.”

“We are not put on this earth to see through one another. We are put on this earth to see one another through.”

“We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. ”

“...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.”

“to see beauty is to learn the private language of meaning which is another's life - to recognize and relish what is. beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy. why languish in the shadow of a standard we cannot personify, an ideal we cannot live?”