More from José Saramago
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
Blindness (1995), p. 126Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
The Cave (2000), p. 124Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Blindness (1995), p. 276
Popular quotes
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).
