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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?
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.
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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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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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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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