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219 Own Eyes quotes by 170 unique authors
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Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything…
— Haruki Murakami
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We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own…
— Max Frisch
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She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree…
— Robin McKinley
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I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying…
— C.S. Lewis
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With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a…
— Patrick Süskind
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...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs…
— Jorge Amado
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When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad…
— Paulo Coelho
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Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.
— Salman Rushdie
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Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that…
— Paulo Coelho
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I never thought of it like that. I always thought of you as a part of me, like my own eyes or my own hands.…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep…
— Roberto Bolano
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It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of…
— Douglas Adams
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As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I've never thought of you like that,' said Christopher. 'How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you,…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake…
— Ayn Rand
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Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.
— Deb Caletti
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You asked me once if I would still love you when your lips were puckered with age and your eyes were faded. I can assure…
— Teresa Medeiros
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If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human…
— Mark Morford
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Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed…
— Chaim Potok
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You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The…
— Haruki Murakami
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The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is…
— Jonathan Coe
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Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue…
— Elizabeth Moon
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He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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What is your future, son of a king?' he heard Torina say. Landen smiled. 'Ask your crystal, daughter of a queen.' She traced his eyebrow…
— Victoria Hanley
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