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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The face is the index of the mind. – Proverb

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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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It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But its not, its a visa, and it runs out fast. – Julie Burchill

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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. – Thomas Hardy

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