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Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
Chronicler
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Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
Jose Saramago
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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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Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.
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As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.
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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.
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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
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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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a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
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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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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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Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
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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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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
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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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Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
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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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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
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The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
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