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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with ...

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I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and ba...

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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

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

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

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

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose cou...

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Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life sh...

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Cassandra ClareThe Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possib...

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Charles de LintTapping the Dream Tree

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

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

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Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wh...

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They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine mi...

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Where is the land of Luthany,Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.'Pierce thy heart to...

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Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three ...

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - t...

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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eter...

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To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep,...

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

O fairest of all creation, last and bestOf all God's works, creature in whom excelledWhatever can to...

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To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true...

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John RuskinThe Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition. 39 vols.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity a...

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I see nobody on the road,' said Alice'I only wish I had such eyes,' The King remarked in a fretful t...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from d...

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You two are too cute,” the counter girl said, setting two cups piled with whipped cream on the count...

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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn