Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.
Jose SaramagoSuch is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
Jose SaramagoNothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
Jose Saramago