“There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.”
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) French writer
Source: Cosmopolis (1892), Ch. 5 "Countess Steno"
“Claghorn had long insisted that no human condition endured forever, with the corollary that the more complicated such a condition, the greater its susceptibility to change.”
— Jack Vance, book The Last Castle
Source: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 2, section 1
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