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Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.
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but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.
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God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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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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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
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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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Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
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...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
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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 stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism optimists will never change the world for the better.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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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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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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