Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

Jose Saramago

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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Jose Saramago

determined soul names

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

Jose Saramago

good-night dream desire

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

Jose Saramago

caught eye heart

We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

Jose Saramago

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

Jose Saramago

reading inspirational life

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

Jose Saramago

blindness blind world

The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.

Jose Saramago

tests pain long

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

Jose Saramago

wasting-time coherence identity

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

Jose Saramago

choose-life

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

Jose Saramago

ends journey death

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

Jose Saramago

privilege doubt long

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Jose Saramago

imf institutions world

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Jose Saramago

blind people thinking

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Jose Saramago

economic political government

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

Jose Saramago

fronts lying

...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.

Jose Saramago

anxiety laughter long

Each day is a little bit of history

Jose Saramago

bits each-day littles

As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.

Jose Saramago

hours cat sleep

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.

Jose Saramago

miracle giving hands

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

Jose Saramago

born eye matter