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

“إن الضمير الأخلاقي الذي يهاجمه الكثير من الحمقى، وينكره آخرون كثر أيضًا، هو موجود وطالما كان موجودًا ولم يكن من اختراع فلاسفة الدهر الرابع حيث لم تكن الروح أكثر من فرضية مشوشة، فمع مرور الزمن والارتقاء الاجتماعي أيضًا والتبادل الجيني انتهينا إلى تلوين ضميرنا بحمرة الدم وبملوحة الدمع وكأن ذلك لم يكن كافيًا فحوّلنا أعيننا إلى مرايا داخلية، والنتيجة أنها غالبًا تظهر من دون أن تعكس ما كنا نحاول إنكاره لفظيًا.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“...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