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The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
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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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 character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.
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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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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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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
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We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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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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... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
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I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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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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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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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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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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