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failed to see

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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. Federico García Lorca

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being. Charles Bukowski

Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms. Cassandra Clare

Looking at them [the metaphysical paintings of De Chirico, c. 1919] I had the sense of rediscovering something I had always known, just as when some event already seen opens up to us a whole realm of our own dream world, one that we have failed to see or comprehend, owing to a kind of censorship. Max Ernst

Men started to geoform the earth in the middle of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, a lot of the early work was done by people who failed to see the earth as a closed set of mutually interrelated systems. Joe Haldeman

While we call ourselves animal lovers, and lavish kindness on our dogs and cats, we inflict brutal deprivations on billions of animals that are just as capable of suffering. The hypocrisy is so rank that future generations will marvel at how we could have failed to see it. George Monbiot

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