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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Great Expectations
For the outsider - and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else - something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'.

The Clown
Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.

To the Lighthouse
Please remember: things are not what they seem.

1Q84
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you
To succeed in the world, we must be foolish in appearance, but really wise
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound
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