the eyes strictly speaking, have no expression, not even when they have been plucked out, they are two round objects that remain inert, it is the eyelids, the eyelashes and the eyebrows, that have to take on board the different visual eloquences and rhetorics, notwithstanding that this is normally attributed to the eyes


José Saramago, (b. 1922) is a Nobel-laureate Portuguese writer, playwright and journalist. Blindness by Jose Saramago. English translation 1997. p.220