Some idiots use José Saramago's phrases to mislead the ignorant, that our government truly acts on social issues. The same happens with Tche, and other social leaders, but in the words of the wise man, the government was disappointing, just like him, we all expected more and better. He also talks about what he called caciquism, which in short is this adoration we have for our corrupt politicians, the thousands of votes for Collor, Maluf, Jader Barbalho, and the dominant currents of the Sarney family's PMDB and the Petistas considered owners of the country.
When asked about his future, he said, "I'm 84 years old, I can live for three or four more years, or five years" and so it was, he died on June 18, 2010, he would have turned 88 on November 16.
Asked if death frightened him, he said:
No, no, no. The worst thing about it is, as I see it, the worst thing about death is that before you were, and now you are not. I say in another way what my grandmother said, she must have been tired of living, and said: "the world is so beautiful, and I'm so sorry to die." And this is not... no, she wasn't sorry to die. She was sorry not to be, in the future, to continue seeing this world that she thought was beautiful.
