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A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
Jose Saramago
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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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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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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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No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.
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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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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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That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.
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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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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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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 order yet undeciphered.
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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
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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 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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People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.
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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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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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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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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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