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...mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly.""How do you see something that isn't there?"..."sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are"...


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...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

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This page presents the quote "...mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly.""How do you see something that isn't there?"..."sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are"...". Author of this quote is Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth. This quote is about sight, vision, mirage,.