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“When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.”

Want Giving Whole Seems Hate Color Giving Up Perception Aspect Blind Like Love

Author:William Tapley Bennett Jr.

“Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.”

Fantasy Strange Perception Shadow Blind Fantastic

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?”

Eye Perception Blind Blindness Jewels Subjectivity

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”

Men Feels Art Artist Painting Perception Blind Paint Profession Blind Man Blind Love

Author:Pablo Picasso

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”

Men Belief Land Civilization Perception Sight Blind Blindness Blind Man Blind Eyes Minority Report

Book:Catspaw

Source: Catspaw

“Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict’s uniform.”

Source: Everything I Know About Writing

“But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.”

Men Whole Feelings Courses Millions Mankind Fool Cold Hero Creatures Perception Tools Fellows Blind Dues Noble Features Exception Sentiments Warmth Permit Freak Despised

Book:Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse

Source: Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse

“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

Artist Media Color Perception Blind Radio Stations Rock N Roll Radio Stations

Book:Scar Tissue

Source: Scar Tissue

“The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.”

Way Facts Body Mother Brain Worry Missing Perception Daughter Blind Longing Breathing My Daughter Fists Deaf Sensory Sensory Perception

Author:Olivia Williams

“If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.”

Ifs Littles Made Self Play Hands Next Roles Demand Despair Perception Weakness Resources Blind Meetings Notion Defeat Determined Despise Doomed Urgency

Author:Joan Didion

“It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control actions. That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral. . . . Blind, unreasoning obedience is the enemy of morality.”

Humans Said Light Action Moral Enemy Clear Morality Perception Consequence Increase Blind Obedience Diminish Immoral Human Happiness

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.”

Men Eye Action Evil Born Sin Proud Perception Blind Riches Lust Bent Blindness Proud Man

Author:Chanakya