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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 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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It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.
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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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A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
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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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We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.
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Every thing in life is a uniform the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
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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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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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Death is the inventor of God.
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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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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
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Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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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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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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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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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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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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