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  • The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? -- Bernard Levin
  • One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat! -- Ian Mckellen
  • I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. -- Tom Hodgkinson
  • I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by. -- Therese of Lisieux
  • ...the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind. -- Victor Hugo
  • It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. -- H. G. Wells
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