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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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
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We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.
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Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.
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A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
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En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
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blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
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There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
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Such 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.
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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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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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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People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.
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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
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Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
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The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
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