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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.
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
Jose Saramago
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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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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.
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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 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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Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
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Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.
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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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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
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The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
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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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A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
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a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
Jose Saramago
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
Jose Saramago
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
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