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Henry Grunwald
1922 – 2005 • Austrian • Editor
15
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Collected Meditations
Showing 15 quotesIn medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.— Henry Grunwald
My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze.— Henry Grunwald
It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.— Henry Grunwald