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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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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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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.
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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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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
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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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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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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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...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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Every thing in life is a uniform the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
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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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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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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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The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.
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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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Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.
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That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
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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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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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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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