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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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Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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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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Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.
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Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
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Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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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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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 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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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
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Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.
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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
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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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Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
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