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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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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we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.
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Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
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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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A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
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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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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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Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.
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Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
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It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
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I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?
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