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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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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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I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.
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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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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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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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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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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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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
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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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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
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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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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
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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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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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