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Blindness - José Saramago
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“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”
“Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adjective, we have the excitement of seeing them coming irresistibly to the surface through the skin and the eyes and upsetting the composure of our feelings, sometimes the nerves that can not bear it any longer, they put up with a great deal, they put up with everything, it was as if they were wearing armor, we might say.”
“The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.”
“You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.”
“When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.”
― José Saramago, Blindness
“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”
“Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adjective, we have the excitement of seeing them coming irresistibly to the surface through the skin and the eyes and upsetting the composure of our feelings, sometimes the nerves that can not bear it any longer, they put up with a great deal, they put up with everything, it was as if they were wearing armor, we might say.”
“The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.”
“You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.”
“When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.”
― José Saramago, Blindness



The lack of punctuation was annoying to me. It makes one feel lost, and as blind as the characters.
All in all, it's a good interesting read :)