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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
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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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