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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

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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
Jose Saramago
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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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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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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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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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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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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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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
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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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We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
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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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Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.
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People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.
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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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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
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There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.
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With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.
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The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.
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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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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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Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
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