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“Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer,”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man, to have so inexhaustible a subject.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Without a future, the present serves no purpose,”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Remember this, if you can--there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end--only in the end it becomes more obvious.”
― Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny