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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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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
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Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.
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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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Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
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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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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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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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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.
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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
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