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Death is the inventor of God.
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 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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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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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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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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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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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
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If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.
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The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.
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Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
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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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We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
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It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
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There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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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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There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
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