I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see. Jose Saramago More Quotes by Jose Saramago More Quotes From Jose Saramago 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 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 Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle. Jose Saramago foul blessed night
