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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
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
Jose Saramago
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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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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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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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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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There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
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blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
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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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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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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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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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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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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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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
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There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.
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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
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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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No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.
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