#see

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#i #i think #people #see #think

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#choice #down #either #extension #family

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#locked #seen #themselves #up #women

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#because #everything #forgiving #house #i

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#carrying #dead #france #heard #how

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#defends #equilibrium #itself #morbid #organism

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#ah #i #intelligent #keep #know

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#disturbs #find #me #men #mischievous

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#books #i #i have learned #know #learned

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe