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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.
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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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
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It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.
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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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In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
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