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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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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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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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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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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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If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
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It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
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In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
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Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.
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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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Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
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The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
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I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own characterthe author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.
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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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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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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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Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
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We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.
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