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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
Jose Saramago
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No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.
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God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
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The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.
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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.
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all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
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In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
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For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.
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If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
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