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“That thing over there was more there than it’s there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams men have,The myopia of someone who doesn’t look very much,”
Alberto Caeiro
“That thing over there was more there than it’s there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams men have,The myopia of someone who doesn’t look very much,”
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro“the wages of empire is myopia”
Natasha Trethewey, Thrall“The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.”
Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand“All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed and snorted and hissed, that gave off fumes or stenches. In six months, he would be the owner of a large pink, trained ulcer, a blood pressure of algebraic dimensions, a myopia this side of blindness, and nightmares as deep as oceans and infested with improbable lengths of dream intestines through which he must violently force his way each night.”
Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man“Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.”
Garry Wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State“To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam“It's like looking through a microscope your whole life," he (Justin) said. "You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.”
Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken“There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.”
George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric“Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.”
Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques“The French political class has been relentlessly myopic, if not completely blind, about the concerns of those who work and mine and farm. .... To cite Eugene Weber, "One thing that we learn from history is that people seldom learn from history.”
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