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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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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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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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
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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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The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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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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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness
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. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism optimists will never change the world for the better.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
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