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He stopped. He looked right at me. That’s where the image of his eyes was burned into my brain forever, right over the sights of my M-16.
“Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.”
― What It is Like to Go to War
― What It is Like to Go to War
“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.”
― Metaphors on Vision
― Metaphors on Vision
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