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"The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
"Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls."
"I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night."
"I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out."
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"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."
"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
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