Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.
– Nicole Krauss
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- The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – GK Chesterton
- Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. – Arab proverb
- The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul. – Mark Twain
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- I wish I could fly.I wish I were rich.I wish I had more time.--œBut you can, and you are, and you do; I wish you would open your eyes. – Richelle E Goodrich
- To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious – Lea R Caguinguin
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- there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. – Nicole Krauss
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- …larger than life…I’ve never understood that expression. What’s larger than life? – Nicole Krauss
- My sister wrote letters to the dead and hid them in her bedroom drawers.I wrote imaginary letters in my head to living. – Renee Ruin
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- Spirituality wants to know and experience higher states of mind and being. It wants to wrestle with angels and look the Creator in the eye. – Stefan Emunds
- Somebody said once or wrote, once: ‘We’re all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God’s name with the wrong alphabet blocks! – Tennessee Williams
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- Draw: For the most part, a draw occurs when it appears that neither side will win. – Kenya Wright
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- If a woman does not want she actually wants, if she wants she certainly wants it! – Thiruman Archunan
- But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,’ he wrote back, ‘This is my home. – Junot Daz
- So, although my story is sometimes ugly, it’s also beautiful. – Niki Krauss
- The man ????ed his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back. – Gillian Flynn