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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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Every thing in life is a uniform the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
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It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
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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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I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.
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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.
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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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The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.
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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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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.
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The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
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A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'
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Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
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I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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