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“One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He was sitting beside his little charcoal fire. ("He shall sit as a refiner"; the gold- or silversm...”
“This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immedia...”
“Don't misunderstand people by smile or appearance.every person is not living life some one just spend the life”
“Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name”
“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
“Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in...”
“Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?”
“Most times, the leaders ornament isnt the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we dont see when they were struggling behind the scenes.”
“He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy.”
“The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.”
“For all the way he loved her. Every song had her memory, every rain had her smell, and every girl had her face.”
“The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face.”
“The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!”
“Lets pursue the visage of imagination”
“If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.”
“He remembered hearing Karl tell James once that it was hard for people to ever know what they really looked like. Reflections in mirrors werent accurate, Karl said, because when you stared at yours...”
“To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.”
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
“Probably I'm boring, but I have a reason about it and I'm doing behind this, so take it, like it's a fake face.”