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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
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The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.
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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
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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 world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
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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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People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.
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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
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God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
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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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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.
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just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
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The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
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Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
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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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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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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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