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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

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