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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.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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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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anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly
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Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
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We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
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Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
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The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.
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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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Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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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 wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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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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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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Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
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Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
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If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
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