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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
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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The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.
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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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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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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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...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.
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