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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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We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
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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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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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That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.
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just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
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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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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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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 novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
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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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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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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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... 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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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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We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.
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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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blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
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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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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
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