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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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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More quotes by Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.
Jose Saramago
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
Jose Saramago
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
Jose Saramago
If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.
Jose Saramago
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
Jose Saramago
Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
Jose Saramago
That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.
Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Jose Saramago
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Jose Saramago
Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
Jose Saramago
... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
Jose Saramago
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
Jose Saramago
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
Jose Saramago
There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
Jose Saramago
