"We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are."
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"Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place."
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"Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless."
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"Kiss me with your eyes."
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"Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye."
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"I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself."
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"A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself."
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"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
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"Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says."
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"I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity."
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"I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind."
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"You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes."
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"The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over."
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"Close your eyes and you will see."
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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
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"How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!"
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"Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do."
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"See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free."
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"If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed."
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"Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams."
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