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• With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

  Carl Jung

  Arte, Ojo, Luz

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• Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Patriotism, Fever, Stones

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2230, Delphi Classics

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• Quiero tu inocencia. Quiero tu devoción ciega e incuestionable a tu padre, tu aceptación de quién y qué es. Quiero que me mires como le miras a él, sabiendo lo peor. Quiero que confíes en mí, incluso cuando tu cerebro te diga que no debes, quiero que ignores el sentido común y tu necesidad de toda la vida de protegerte. Quiero que te entregues a mí, en cuerpo y alma.

  Ana Stuart

  Father, Acceptance, Knowing

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• I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. But Mother once told me tongue kissing would turn me blind and I'm starting to think it's all just a big plot between the surgeon general and Mother to make sure no one ever has any fun.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mother, Fun, Kissing

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• His gaze was a lot steadier than her heartbeat. “She’s the reason for those whispered phone calls I used to overhear, isn’t she?” “Don’t be silly. I was talking to my lover.” “She told me she lives at a place called Brookdale. After I hung up, I did a little research on the Web. Your talent for obfuscation continues to amaze me.” “Hey, I haven’t obfuscated in weeks. Makes you go blind.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Silly, Talking, Phones

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• Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

  Adam Phillips

  Blind Spots, Limits, Recognition

  Adam Phillips (2005). “Going sane”, Egully.com

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• The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

  China Mieville

  Amazon, Interviews, Idiot

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• A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

  Vera Nazarian

  Dumb, Ancient, Deaf

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• All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. And even oblivion must end someday. Lord, will you grant me just a little time? For the proper balance of things. To return what was given. For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants. Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Expression, Bird

  "El hombre segador". Libro de Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Panic, Reason, Enough

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• I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Logic, Cold, Realist

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

  Oliver Sacks

  Eye, Principles, Language

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “The Mind's Eye”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• Para empezar, retrocedo en el tiempo. Lo retrocedo a ese pintoresco período, los años treinta, cuando la enorme clase media de Estados Unidos se matriculaba en una escuela para ciegos. Sus ojos les habían fallado, o ellos les habían fallado a ellos, y por eso les apretaban los dedos a la fuerza sobre el ardiente alfabeto Braille de una economía en disolución.

  Tennessee Williams

  Escuela, Ojo, Clase

  Tennessee Williams (1945). "The Glass Menagerie", p.5, New Directions Publishing.

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• Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hate, Emotion, Pity

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.221, Penguin

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• Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

  Robert E. Howard

  Kings, Queens, Cheer

  Robert E. Howard (2008). “The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard”, p.158, Del Rey

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• Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

  Marian Keyes

  Love Is, Alzheimer's, Dumb

  Marian Keyes (2009). “Last Chance Saloon”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her as if she's blind and deaf as well as physically and mentally disabled.

  Simone Elkeles

  Heart, Simple, Tears

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• Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.

  Holly Black

  Men, Glasses, Magic

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• When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.

  John Owen

  Heart, Reality, Should Have

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• There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.

  Federico García Lorca

  Rain, Swans, Fog

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• Juzgar a los demás nos ciega, mientras que el amor ilumina. Al juzgar a los demás nos cegamos ante nuestra propia maldad y ante la gracia a la que los demás tienen tanto derecho como nosotros.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Amor Es, Juzgarse, Maldad

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). "El coste del discipulado", p.129, SCM Press.

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• I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mean, Vision, Stones

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Es mejor estar ciego que ver las cosas desde un solo punto de vista.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Vistas, punto de vista

  Sabrina Jeffries (2006). "Only a Duke Will Do", p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

  José Saramago

  Thinking, People, One Day

  "Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of 1998 Nobel, dies", www.cnn.com. June 18, 2010.

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• Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Affair, Kitten, Ought

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The History of Pendennis”, p.15, Booklassic

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