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“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter—often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter—in the eye.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“beauty is in the eye of the gazer.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

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