Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go thro…

Dean Koontz
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Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting. ✨ Dean Koontz (2009). Relentless: A Novel, p.145, Bantam
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