The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire. Jean Lorrain
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  2. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  3. Love gives you eyes. - Peter Kreeft

  4. Eyebrows are what give the eyes focus - Anthony T.Hincks

  5. Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man. - Anthony T. Hincks

More Quotes By Jean Lorrain
  1. (Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise

  2. You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.

  3. The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect .. and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than...

  4. It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

  5. In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives with eyes hollower than those of suburban streetwalkers; music-hall chorus girls who tip creosote into their Roederer when getting drunk.. I have even...

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