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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet...

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I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could ...

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

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Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this...

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I only enjoy what I can see, because I don't feel anything. For example, your new wallpaper. I like ...

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In order that the concept of substance could originate--which is indispensable for logic although in...

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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to ...

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Friedrich NietzscheSämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Einzelbänden

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...

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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force t...

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You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the ...

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Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing ...

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it...

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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set....

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A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of he...

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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch....

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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the...

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The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the ...

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The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted p...

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Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some di...

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Louis L'AmourEducation of a Wandering Man

Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.

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Lynn MargulisMicrocosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...

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There are things you can’t reach. ButYou can reach out to them, and all day long.The wind, the bird ...

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Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of st...

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...

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What is art but a way of seeing?

I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place t...

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Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of ...

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Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like ...

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His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of ...

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I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light...

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Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

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André GideLa symphonie pastorale

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

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I am sitting under a sycamore by Tinker Creek. I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under ...

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I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dan...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, makin...

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Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it an...

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Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then diss...

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When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind ...

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What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this vall...

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Yesterday I watched a curious nightfall. The cloud ceiling took on a warm tone, deepened, and depart...

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Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I chanced on a wonderful book by Marius von Senden, called Space and Sight. . . . For the newly sigh...

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Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in yo...

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