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blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.
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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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The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
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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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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
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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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The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
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Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.
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It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
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The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
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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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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
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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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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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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
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