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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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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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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.
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That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.
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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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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
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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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Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
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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 can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
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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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Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
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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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The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
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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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This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.
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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...
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En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
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A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
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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.
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