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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Gazing

"I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind."

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
Gazing

"People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."

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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
Gazing

"As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson."

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Thornton Wilder Playwright, Novelist, Poet
Gazing

"A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment."

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Franz Kafka Writer
Gazing

"When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Gazing

"The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may; The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day."

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