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"I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me."

Eye Fall Sleep
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Eye

"There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certain hills, which have become familiar sights and can touch our hearts like happy events. Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart."

Eye Memories Spring
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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
Eye

"I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life."

Eye House Boards
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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter
Eye

"i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses"

Eye Love Small Hands
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Paulo Coelho Writer
Eye

"Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made."

Eye Mistake Enjoy Life
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
Eye

"When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win."

Real Eye Fighting
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Wilferd Peterson Author and Speaker
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"The leader sees things through the eyes of his followers. He puts himself in their shoes and helps them make their dreams come true. The leader does not say, "Get going!" Instead he says, "Let's go!" and leads the way. He does not walk behind with a whip; he is out in front with a banner."

Dream Eye Motivational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Eye

"Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into."

Eye Fall Expression
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Naguib Mahfouz Novelist
Eye

"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."

People Eye Hero
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Laozi Philosopher
Eye

"The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving."

Eye Knowing Seeing
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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
Eye

"I believe that business shouldn't be done in the public's eye anyway. And I believe that business shouldn't be handled in the magazines anyway. Business should be handled in the room amongst the people you're doing business with."

People Believe Eye
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Eye

"None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."

Believe Eye Lying
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Johannes Kepler Astronomer, Mathematician
Eye

"Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity."

Mind Eye Sound
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Homer Poet
Eye

"Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever."

Eye Husband Beach
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours."

Eye Punishment Lazarus
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