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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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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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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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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.
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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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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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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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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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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
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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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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.
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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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En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
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The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
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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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As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.
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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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Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
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If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
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