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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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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
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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 only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
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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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The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
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...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
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Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
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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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I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.
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when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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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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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.
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