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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
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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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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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
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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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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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In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
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We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness
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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
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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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The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.
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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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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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A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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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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anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly
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