"Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw."
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"Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw."
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"And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators."
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"Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it."
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"Then I saw Keanu Reeves in 'Much Ado About Nothing' and I know if he can do it, I can do it too."
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"The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses."
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"From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen."
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"The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying."
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"They tried to kill me,” he said, his brow furrowed as he glared at them. “You saw them!” “Yeah?” I spouted off. “They weren’t very good at it!” (Trent and Rachel)"
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"Then I went to the morgue and saw that those bones weren't yours, heard your voice again in my head" -his eyes closed- "and once more, nothing else mattered."
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"There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story."
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"I was shocked cause I didn't even know that they made my jersey. I didn't know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, 'Did they customize that?' And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must've made them overnight or something."
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"I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was."
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"Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak."
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"Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse."
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"'Tommy' was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn't 'the show' that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I'd never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed."
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"Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important."
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"And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. That was your nature, whether you liked it or not."
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"He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new."
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"I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched."
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