Blinds Quotes
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But death blinds you, unaware of man’s fall –An autumn that steals the flower from the flower peddler.Death is testimony of god’s love and mercy for man –A promise made between autumn and spring.
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More Blinds Quotes
What cannot praise effect in mighty minds, When flattery soothes, and when ambition blinds!
john dryden— 1681Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.303-4.
Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.
Albert Camus— La verite, comme la lumière, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau crepuscule qui met chaque objet en valeur.
— La Chute (1956), translated by Stuart Gilbert.
The candles burn their sockets, The blinds let through the day, The young man feels his pockets And wonders what's to pay.
a. e. housman— Last Poems, no. 21 (1922).
The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.
Roland Barthes— "Myth on the Right," in Mythologies (1957)
The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.
Carlos Fuentes— "How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 5.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
livy— Book V, sec. 37
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
— Book V, sec. 37
Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!
— Who: Rudolph Valentino, Italo-American actor and Latin Lover.
