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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
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I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own characterthe author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.
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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.
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If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
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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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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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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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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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we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.
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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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We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
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A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
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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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Death is the inventor of God.
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