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I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.
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. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism optimists will never change the world for the better.
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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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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
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Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
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Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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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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It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.
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Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
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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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