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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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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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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when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
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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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We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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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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