The eyes were damned, the staring, glaring eyes of one who sees but does not see, eyes ever turned inward to the sterile hell of dreams beyond control, dreams unleashed, risen out of the stinking swamps of the unconscious.

Stephen King
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In the novel, The Adolescent, written by Virginia Woolf, the main character has a series of epileptic seizures and has to undergo surgery to remove her eyes. In the post-surgery ward, she is placed in a room with a bed that is designed to block the windows and she is allowed no visitors. The novel is about Adele’s struggle to recover from her surgeries and her discovery of her love for a man who does not return her affections.

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