"When she had gone upstairs, he walked to……" — Ayn Rand

"When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head."

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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external… — Saint Basil
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back. — Francis Picabia
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he… — James Hutton
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As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the… — Chelsea Manning
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world… — Edward Abbey
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive… — John Herschel
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and… — William Penn
Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is… — Hildegard of Bingen

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