Quotes From "Blindness" By

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Blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. Unknown
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You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. Unknown
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. Unknown
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... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ... Unknown
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If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality. Unknown
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We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep… Unknown
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Why they were loaded with bags of beans and peas and anything else they happened to pick up when they were still some distance away from the street where the first blind man and his wife lived, for that is where they are going, is a question that could only occur to someone who has never in his life suffered shortages. Unknown
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The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do. Unknown
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What is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves Unknown
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Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune... Unknown
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...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. Unknown
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If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? Unknown
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We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn… Unknown