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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
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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The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.
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Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'
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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.
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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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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
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Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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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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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
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