Honore De Balzac Quotes, Art Quotes, Eye Quotes

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.

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O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

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In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Eye Quotes , Order Quotes

The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Eye Quotes , Dancing Quotes

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

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Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Eye Quotes , Fire Quotes

Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

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All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Life Quotes , Eye Quotes

The eye altering, alters all.

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There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Eye Quotes , Listening Quotes