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Milan Kundera
“The eye: the window to the soul; the center of the face's beauty; the point where a person's identity is concentrated; but at the same time an optical instrument that requires constant washing, wetting, maintenance by a special liquid dosed with salt. So the gaze, the greatest marvel man possesses, is regularly interrupted by a mechanical washing action.”
Milan Kundera, Identity

Sylvia Plath
“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh had gone through; I dream of what it may go through. I record here the actions of optical nerves, of taste buds, of sensory perception. And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Claude Debussy
“music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light”
Claude Debussy

Marcel Proust
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself.”
Marcel Proust

Toni Morrison
“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
Toni Morrison

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