“After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”

— Oscar Wilde

Said about Absinthe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe. Quoted in “Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde: With Reminiscences of the Author" by Ada Leverson (London: Duckworth, 1930)

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

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“You can see the beauty in things only after learning the meaning of the word 'beautiful'.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”

Charles Kingsley book The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

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“This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

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“If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

As quoted in "Author Isn't Just a Cat in the Hat" by Miles Corwin in The Los Angeles Times (27 November 1983); also in Dr. Seuss: American Icon (2004) by Philip Nel, p. 38
Context: Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.