“ our eyes are unable to perceive what is either too small or too great, too near to or too far from us ”
Guy de Maupassant, The Horla (1887). copy citation
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
|---|---|
| Source | The Horla |
| Topic | eyes |
| Date | 1887 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Horla |
Context
“Everything that surrounds us, everything that we see without looking at it, everything that we touch without knowing it, everything that we handle without feeling it, everything that we meet without clearly distinguishing it, has a rapid, surprising, and inexplicable effect upon us and upon our organs, and through them on our ideas and on our being itself.
How profound that mystery of the Invisible is! We cannot fathom it with our miserable senses: our eyes are unable to perceive what is either too small or too great, too near to or too far from us; we can see neither the inhabitants of a star nor of a drop of water; our ears deceive us, for they transmit to us the vibrations of the air in sonorous notes. Our senses are fairies who work the miracle of changing that movement into noise, and by that metamorphosis give birth to music, which makes the mute agitation of nature a harmony.”
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