"Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible."
- René Magritte

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"For the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things."
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar ... See MoreSee Less

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
- David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary ... See MoreSee Less

"To a peasant, there is no sound more beautiful than the music of flowing water."
- Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette ... See MoreSee Less

"Every man's memory is his private literature."
- Aldous Huxley ... See MoreSee Less

"Architecture is the great book of humanity, the principal expression of man in his different stages of development, either as a force or as an intelligence."
- Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ... See MoreSee Less

"The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion which we must take seriously."
- Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy ... See MoreSee Less

"Your eyes can deceive you. Don't trust them."
- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope ... See MoreSee Less

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more."
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth ... See MoreSee Less

"Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour."
- Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay ... See MoreSee Less

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park ... See MoreSee Less

"To love is not to look at one another, it is to look together in the same direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars ... See MoreSee Less

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
- Thomas Mann, Death in Venice ... See MoreSee Less

"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream ... See MoreSee Less

"If you are asked why you favour a particular public-house, it would seem natural to put the beer first, but the thing that most appeals to me is what people call its 'atmosphere'."
- George Orwell, The Moon Under Water ... See MoreSee Less