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• Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

  J. Paul Getty

  Women, Jealous, Wife

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• If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

  Jean Hugard

  Magic, Action, Illusion

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• No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Eye, Animal

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• In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Pride, Men

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• Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

  Ken Hensley

  Christian, Real, Expression

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• To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.

  David Whyte

  Humans

  "The Conversational Nature of Reality". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. April 6, 2016.

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• To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.

  John Cowper Powys

  Book, Mean, People

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• You have the power to make manifest that which is not yet visible, to create that which is still unborn.

  Margot Anand

  Manifest, Unborn, Stills

  Margot Anand (1995). “The Art of Sexual Magic”, Tarcher

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• Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

  Harry Mulisch

  Memories, Past, Might

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• For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.

  Jean Giono

  Mistake, Character, Years

  Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.3, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• I believe that everything has a purpose and that everything a person does will come back to haunt or save him. Life is like a mirror in which everything we do is reflected back to us. We might not be able to recognize the reflection, and at times the image may be hidden. We may take years to see it or it may not even be visible during our lifetime. But it all comes around in the end. Space is as infinite as our actions are timeless. We are all part of the same invisible story, all travelling in a single continuum.

  Lorenzo Quinn

  Believe, Reflection, Mirrors

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• Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Honor, Action

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.219, Penguin

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• The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

  Leigh Hunt

  Fire, Tangible, Mystery

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• If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.

  Max Beckmann

  Wish, Invisible, Penetrate

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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• As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.

  Dave Hickey

  Positivity, Blue, Color

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• A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.

  Anne Carson

  Thinking, Differences, Space

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.171, Princeton University Press

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• This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

  John Granger

  Spiritual, Reality, Stories

  John Granger (2010). “How Harry Cast His Spell: The Meaning Behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling Books”, p.94, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace it's perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon.

  Geneen Roth

  Beautiful, Country, Children

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from May 23, 2014

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• Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

  Muriel Lester

  Friday, Sight, Evil

  Muriel Lester (1947). “It So Happened”

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• We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Bears, Scar, Mines

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “The Assassin and the Desert: A Throne of Glass Novella”, p.305, A&C Black

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• To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are the product of individuals, perhaps working together, but always within a clearly defined framework. Their names are on the door and they are quite visible to the investing public. In reality outstanding records are made by dictators, hopefully benevolent, but nonetheless dictators.

  Peter Cundill

  Running, Reality, Doors

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• In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.

  Bertrand Russell

  Years, Water, Elements

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Men, Together

  "Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts".

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• A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gratitude, Children, Joy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.35

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• Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.

  Richard Bach

  Design, Intention, States

  Richard Bach (2009). “Hypnotizing Maria”, p.110, Hampton Roads Publishing

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