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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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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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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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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
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That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.
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The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
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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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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
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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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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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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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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
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Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
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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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all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
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anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly
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