...we take care not to touch each other in public, nor do we look into each other's eyes except furtively, because Ivan must first wash my eyes with his own, removing the images which landed on my retina before his arrival.

Ingeborg Bachmann
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  3. Love gives you eyes. - Peter Kreeft

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

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  1. There are people who think that Malina and I are married. We never considered that we might be married, that such a possibility could exist, nor even the idea that other people might think that we were married. For the longest time it never crossed...

  2. I'll worship animals in the night, I'll lay violent hands on the holiest icons, I'll clutch at all lies, I'll grow bestial in my dreams and will allow myself to be slaughtered like a beast.

  3. Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.

  4. The children are in love but do not know with what. They talk in gibberish, muse themselves into an indefinable pallor, and when they are completely at a loss they invent a language that maddens them. My fish. My hook. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>My fox. My...

  5. The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

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