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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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That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
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a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
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I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?
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I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own characterthe author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.
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...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
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Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
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Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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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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I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.
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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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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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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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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
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