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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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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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I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.
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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
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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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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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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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but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.
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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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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
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Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.
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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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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
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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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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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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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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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Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
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