Thursday, July 31, 2008

we were asking beforehand to be excused

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die, said the doctor's wife, that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn


José Saramago, (b. 1922) is a Nobel-laureate Portuguese writer, playwright and journalist. Blindness by Jose Saramago. English translation 1997. p.258

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