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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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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There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
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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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...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.
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I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.
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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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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.
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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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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.
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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.
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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.
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The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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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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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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