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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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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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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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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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. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism optimists will never change the world for the better.
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The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.
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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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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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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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That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
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Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
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The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
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Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
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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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We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.
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The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
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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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A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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