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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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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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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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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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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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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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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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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
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A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.
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Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
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