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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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Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
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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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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
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Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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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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Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.
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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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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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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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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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Death is the inventor of God.
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We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.
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