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Every person has their own colour.

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Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed ...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color percepti...

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Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your exc...

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She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand th...

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But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with...

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Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension...

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The great hall was shimmering in light, sun streaming from the open windows, and ablaze with colour,...

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Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectru...

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From around the corner's edge a grotesque light was trickling out, the first intimations of an omino...

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It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl...

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Virginia WoolfThe Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six

It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthra...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murd...

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Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.