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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.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
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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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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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We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.
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In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
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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.
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The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.
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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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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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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.
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Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
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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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Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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