Veronia

“Would you like to hear the latest news, that colonel we mentioned earlier has gone blind, It'll be interesting to see what he thinks of that bright idea of his now, He already thought, he shot himself in the head, Now that's what I call a consistent attitude, The army is always ready to set an example.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“...Who is that witch, asked the old man with the black eyepatch, these are things we say when we do not know how to take a good look at ourselves, had he lived as she had lived, we should like to see how long his civilised ways would last.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“إن ما نسميه عمى هو ببساطة شئ مايغطي مظهر وكينونة الأشياء , يتركها سليمة خلف حجاب أسود”
― José Saramago, Blindness