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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
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
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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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Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.
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A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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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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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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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.
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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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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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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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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
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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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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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This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.
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A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'
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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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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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Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.
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