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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.
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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when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
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En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
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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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Every thing in life is a uniform the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
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Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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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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We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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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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The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.
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...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
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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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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
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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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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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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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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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