“The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.”
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) writer and salonist
In "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
“Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 328
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“The higher they climbed in their struggle to reach the top, the harder grew their toil. When one height had been mastered, a second opens and springs up before their aching sight.”
Quoque magis subiere iugo atque euadere nisi
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