José Saramago's The Book Of Exhortations With Blindness

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In our world today, there is an allegorical blindness that exists has many different causes. Some people choose to be blind when they choose to ignore what is going on in the world around them. José Saramago calls on The Book of Exhortations with ‘Blindness’ epigraph: “If you can see, look, if you can look, observe.” This quote is especially important to Saramago as he believes that passivity and indifference are the worst sins a human can be guilty of committing. He is saying many things in his use of this quotation. José Saramago believes that passivity and indifference, not only allow unnecessary suffering to continue in the world, but actually may add to the suffering. We were blessed with the gift of sight for many reasons. One of

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