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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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In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
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anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly
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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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Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
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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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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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Each day is a little bit of history
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
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Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
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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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. . . 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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Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.
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