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“I chanced on a wonderful book by Marius von Senden, called Space and Sight. . . . For the newly sighted, vision is pure sensation unencumbered by meaning: "The girl went through the experience that...”
“The hoopoe said: 'Your heart's congealed like ice;When will you free yourself from cowardice?Since you have such a short time to live here,What difference does it make? What should you fear?The wor...”
“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
“And you're blind?"Uh-huh," Iggy said, trying to sound bored.Were you born that way?"No."How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it?"Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way ...”
“To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face”
“You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.”
“The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.”
“What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?”
“She stood, a little unsteadily, true, but on her own two feet. Its not my blindness that cripples me, its everyone else deciding I cant live because of my blindness. If I stumble, if I run into thi...”
“I want you to trust me," Gabe whispered against her lips.Lauren closed her eyes and fought the urge to kiss him. "I still don't."Gabe laughed. "Yeah, you do. You might not want to, but you do.”
“blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.”
“... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...”
“Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.”
“I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could I be making here a true orgy of what's behind thought?”
“They say that right before you die your whole life flashes before you a medley of your own personal greatest hits. Well then, I must be about to live, because events that havent happened yet are c...”
“Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were even the shapes of objects and the distance between objects. Everythi...”
“Never was a blind person blinded by the light that overwhelms his skin but blinded by the darkness within”
“After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively.”
“I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the info...”
