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We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
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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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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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...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.
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Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.
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Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.
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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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...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.
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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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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
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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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A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
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God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
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