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Jacques Lusseyran

"People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I was making better use of them. Sight is a miraculous instrument offering us all the riches of physical life. But we get nothing in this world without paying for it, and in return for all the benefits that sight brings we are forced to give up others whose existence we don't even suspect. These were the gifts I received in such abundance."

Source : Jacques Lusseyran (2014). “And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II”, p.18, New World Library

Jacques Lusseyran

#Giving Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sight Quotes

“I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.”
“Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate in the colouring of its covering. Then it has distinctive qualities; in fact I know of no other tree which is more decorative, both as regards the flow of its limbs and the patterns the bark makes on its main trunk. In all its stages the gum tree is extremely beautiful.”
“I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.”
“The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.”
“Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that”
“On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.”
“I don't want to die, but I'm ok putting it all out there for the most beautiful expression of my life.”
“I'm a pretty big pizza enthusiast so I could talk about pizza all day if you want”

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