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Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

Jose Saramago

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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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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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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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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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