"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked."

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Ralph Ellison

#Vision Quotes #Blindness Quotes

“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”
“The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.”
“Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.”
“most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass ...”
“If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.”
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.”
“O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.”
“Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.”

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