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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.
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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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
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I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?
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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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A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
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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.
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
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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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...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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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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