"blindness is a private matter between a person……" — Jose Saramago

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

— Jose Saramago

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142 Quotes by Jose Saramago

Jose Saramago has 142 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We…
Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land…
This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say…
doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In…
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the…
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not…
Each day is a little bit of history
En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos…
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand…
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want…

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More Blindness Quotes

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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger
Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so… — Andrea Bocelli
Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. — Margaret Cho
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day… — Paulo Coelho
He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect.… — Henry Ward Beecher
I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all… — Unknown Author
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. — Nelson Rodrigues
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us… — Charles Caleb Colton
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! — Rudyard Kipling
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness. — Jean Cocteau
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than… — George Eliot

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