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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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 wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
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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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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.
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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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