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“Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“She was dazzling—alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.” Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“Shut your eyes and see.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing.” George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
“He who does not weep does not see.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“People commonly travel around the world to see rivers and mountains, new stars, birds of rare plumage, queerly deformed fishes, ridiculous breeds of men—they abandon themselves to the bestial stupor which gapes at existence, and they think they...” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
“Only her eyes seem to move. It's like they touch us, not with sight or sense, but like the stream from a hose touches you, the stream at the instant of impact as dissociated from the nozzle as though it had never been there.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
“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
“It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a...” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“The very first day that Morland came to us last Christmas—the very first moment I beheld him—my heart was irrecoverably gone.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“my eyes are not yet accustomed to the desert . . . I can see things that eyes habituated to the desert might not see.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“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
“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.” Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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