„Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.“

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— John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
Quelle: The Duchess of Malfi

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John Webster1

englischer Dramatiker 1578 - 1634

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„A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul.
I'm dying, Landon.“

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— Nicholas Sparks, buch A Walk to Remember

Quelle: A Walk to Remember

„Come! let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung! —
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young —
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.“

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— Edgar Allan Poe, Lenore

"Lenore", st. 1 (1831).

„Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.“

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— Philip Pullman, buch The Subtle Knife

Quelle: The Subtle Knife

„She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.“

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald American novelist and screenwriter 1896 - 1940

Quelle: The Beautiful And Damned

„Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.“

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— Paullina Simons, buch The Bronze Horseman

Quelle: The Bronze Horseman

„Like a good and happy man increasing his virtue, he kissed her. She did not move away from him. She remained in the embrace of his right arm, her face nuzzling his shoulder, her eyes closed. He tipped her chin to look and measure opportunity. She could not open her eyes. Honorably he searched, but on her face he met no quarrel.“

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— Grace Paley American writer and activist 1922 - 2007

"The Pale Pink Roast" (1959)

„She kept her face to the floor, moving in her personal oblivion, her sunflower eyes fixed on the predicament of her life we would never understand.“

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— Jeffrey Eugenides, buch The Virgin Suicides

Quelle: The Virgin Suicides

„Helen whose face was fatal must have wept
Many salt tears to keep her eyes so bright
Many long nights alone: and every night
Men died, she cried, and happy Paris kept
Sweet Helen.“

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— T. H. White author 1906 - 1964

"PARIS".

„She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.“

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— Ann Brashares, buch The Last Summer

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„The young girl stood beside me. I
Saw not what her young eyes could see:
—A light, she said, not of the sky
Lives somewhere in the Orange Tree.“

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— Shaw Neilson Early twentieth century Australian poet 1872 - 1942

Ballad and Lyrical Poems (1923), "The Orange Tree"

„She is mine, and I am hers.“

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— Richelle Mead, buch The Fiery Heart

Quelle: The Fiery Heart

„When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.“

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, buch Tender Is the Night

Quelle: Tender Is the Night

„Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?“

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— Clive Staples Lewis, buch A Grief Observed

Quelle: A Grief Observed (1961), Ch. 1

„She strode like a grenadier, was strong and upright like an obelisk, had a beautiful face, a candid brow, pure eyes, and not a thought of her own in her head.“

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— Joseph Conrad, buch The Return

Tales of Unrest http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1202/1202-h/1202-h.htm. The Return (1902)

„Then he saw that she was blind, her face slightly upcast to her companion's in the manner of those whose expressions never fully attain their target - the eyes of another.“

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— Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

Quelle: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), II

„I bound her to me in all soft ways,
I bound her to me in a net of days,
Yet now she has gone in silence and said no word.
How can we face these dazzling things, I ask you?
There is no use: we cry: and are not heard.“

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— Conrad Aiken American novelist and poet 1889 - 1973

The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)

„She turned her face up to the strange stars and wondered in what direction her course lay. The sky looked blankly down upon her with its myriad meaningless eyes.“

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— C. L. Moore American author 1911 - 1987

Black God's Kiss (1934); p. 23
Short fiction, Jirel of Joiry (1969)

„She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face.“

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— Francesco Petrarca Italian scholar and poet 1304 - 1374

„I am Beloved and she is mine. I see her take flowers away from leaves she puts them in a round basket the leaves are not for her she fills the basket she opens the grass I would help her but the clouds are in the way how can I say things that are pictures I am not separate from her there is no place where I stop her face is my own and I want to be there in the place where her face is and to be looking at it too a hot thing.“

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— Toni Morrison, buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 22

„Gold is the thing that dazzles the women’s eyes.“

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— Alessandro Piccolomini Italian writer and philosopher 1508 - 1579

L’oro è quello che abbaglia gli occhi delle donne.
Act II. — (Vergilio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 337.
L’Amor Costante (1536)

„Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.“

John Webster1

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