To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

George Orwell said that to see what’s in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.

George Orwell said that to see what’s in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle. Well, the solution to our stress and anxiety is right there in front of our noses, and we’re too busy watching porn and advertisements for ab machines that don’t work, wondering why we’re not banging a hot blonde with a rocking six-pack, to notice.

The life of an individual is a constant struggle, and not merely a metaphorical one against want or boredom, but also an actual struggle against other people. He discovers adversaries everywhere, lives in continual conflict and dies with sword in hand.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. .The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

When you just can't see the future, when you just can't see the light, you always got to put on a fight.

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

"Sometimes it's a mighty struggle to know what's real and what's just . . . a mirage. You understand?" "Yeah," I said.

When you're fighting for something, it's always a grueling battle.

That's the problem with people who suffer right in your face. They can't so much as scratch their noses without its being poignant.

The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.

Someone has to keep dreaming.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?