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> [Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caspar-david-friedrich/close-your-bodily-eye-that-you-may-see-your-picture-first-with-the/)

[Caspar David Friedrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caspar-david-friedrich/)

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