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    Meg Rosoff
    “I noticed that once you realize
    someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
    watching them back.”
    ― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
    tags: stare
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    Markus Zusak
    “I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.”
    ― Markus Zusak, Underdog
    tags: looked, oblivious, pathetic, people, smile, smiled, stare, window
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    Criss Jami
    “Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eternally, God cannot be impressed by mere talents or by mortal achievements. To perfect eyes, I imagine that great is not really that great; rather, humility is ultimately a human being's true greatness.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: achievement, art, completion, flaws, god, greatness, humility, incomplete, perfection
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: admiration, anna-karenina, avoiding, flattery, gaze, love, stare, sun, tolstoy
    264 likes

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    Dejan Stojanovic
    “It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.”
    ― Dejan Stojanovic
    tags: beautiful, beauty, dejan-stojanovic, gaze, literature, literature-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, silence, thoughts, wisdom
    47 likes

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    Slavoj Žižek
    “Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek, Gaze and Voice as Love Objects
    tags: gaze, hear, see, voice
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    Roman Payne
    “What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.”
    ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
    tags: admirable-qualities, admiration, art, beauty, beauty-in-literature, birth, face, faces, fatherhood, feminine, femininity, gaze, gazing, girl, girls, literary-quote, literary-quotes, literature-quote, literature-quotes, model, muse, novels, paint, painting, parenthood, payne, perceftion, prose, roma, roman-payne, sculpting, sculpture, sculpturing, the-wanderess, wanderess
    31 likes

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  • #8
    David Levithan
    “I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.”
    ― David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
    tags: gaze, love, word
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    Jean Lorrain
    “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, Monsieur de Phocas
    tags: decadence, decadent, decadents, eyes, gaze, sirens
    53 likes

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  • #10
    Helen Oyeyemi
    “Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?”
    ― Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl
    tags: gaze
    20 likes

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    Kelly Creagh
    “She never answered. She couldn’t. All she could do was stare, reaching toward him with her gaze alone, pulling him to drown in the sorrow of those depthless black pools.”
    ― Kelly Creagh, Nevermore
    tags: black, drown, gaze, pool, sorrow
    8 likes

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  • #12
    “At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate and redirect instinctive responses. He brings out into the open the recognition underlying all decadent art; that is, the political function of the fascinated gaze.”
    ― Jennifer Birkett
    tags: decadence, decadent, gaze, image, peladan
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    Shannon A. Thompson
    “His resonating stare fluttered through my memory, and I shivered. I hadn’t seen kindness in his pupils. I only saw intensity, and, I hated to admit it, but he was beyond intimidating. He was overwhelming. (Jessica)”
    ― Shannon A. Thompson, Minutes Before Sunset
    tags: eyes, gaze, intensity, intimidating, love, overwhelming, paranormal-romance, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-love
    6 likes

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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: apollo, elements, gaze, god, inspirational, inspire, michael-bassey-johnson, poet, poetic, poetry, random-thoughts, thinking, thoughts, unseen
    7 likes

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    Zoë Heller
    “We are bound by the secrets we share.”
    ― Zoe Heller, What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
    tags: confidences, secrets, sharing-secrets
    44 likes

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    Zoë Heller
    “Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.”
    ― Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal
    35 likes



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