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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
Jose Saramago
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
Jose Saramago
It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
Jose Saramago
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
Jose Saramago
With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.
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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.
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That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
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...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.
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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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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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For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.
Jose Saramago
Every thing in life is a uniform the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
Jose Saramago
We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.
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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
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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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
Jose Saramago
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
Jose Saramago
A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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