"I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes."
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"Everything we look upon is blest."
"If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?"
"Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming."
"Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look."
"You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone."
"A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original."
"You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair."
"I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion."
"Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?"
"It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?"
"Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!"
"Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight."
"Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet--nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather."
"You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear."
"Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books."
"a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief"
"To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth"
"The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove."
"Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently."