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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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 beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.
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Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
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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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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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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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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
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