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“It were better far to sail forever in the night of blindness, with sense and feeling and mind, than to be thus content with the mere act of seeing. They have the sunset, the morning skies, the purple of distant hills, yet their souls voyage through this enchanted world with a barren stare.”
― Helen Keller, The World I Live In

“Why will men have theories about women? I haven’t any about men.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Maybe we look into mirrors not merely to seek beauty, regardless how illusive, but to make sure, despite the facts, that we are still here. That the hunted body we move in has not yet been annihilated, craped out. To see yourself still yourself is a refuge men who have not been denied cannot know.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Poirot’s incurable habit of making a mystery out of nothing never failed to irritate me.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links