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Quote by John Carey
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you

A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. – John Carey

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He had a face like a blessing. – Miguel de Cervantes

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The eyes those silent tongues of love. – Miguel de Cervantes

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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen. – Milan Kundera

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