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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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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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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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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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If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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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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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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a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
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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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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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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.
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I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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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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