"Shut your eyes and see."

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Source : James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.67, eBookIt.com

James Joyce

#Eye Quotes #Insight Quotes

“To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.”
“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.”

Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.345, Simon and Schuster
“Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.”
“What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.”
“On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.”
“Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.”
“I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I donâ€™t know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.”

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